Global Travelers Plan to Splurge on Family and Impact Vacations

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Conscious travel and family trips are set to bounce back in a bigger way this year. But will consumer intentions to spend more this year stick if the war in Ukraine and its global impacts persist?
Travelers’ interest in conscious travel is growing and this intentionality in trip planning is coinciding with a desire to spend more on “dream vacations” abroad this year, plus the return of international family travel and events.
Those are the key travel themes that have emerged from the American Express 2022 Global Travel Trends report released on Monday, surveying global consumers from Australia, Canada, Mexico, Japan, India, the UK and the US, and offering insight into their motivations. The data was collected just a couple of weeks before Russia started the war in Ukraine. &