Travel Habits
Holiday and Business Trips 2011
Starting with the year 2000 and taking into account the requirements of the EU Directive on Tourism Statistics and meeting National Regulations, surveys are conducted on leisure and business trips with at least one overnight stay. Every quarter 3 500 representatively chosen individuals living in Austria (15+) are questioned about their travel behavior. The interviews are carried out by means of computer assisted telephone interviews (CATI).
Holiday Travel 2011
In 2011, 5.3 million individuals living in Austria (15+) undertook at least one holiday trip within Austria or abroad. This represents a travel intensity of 75.4%, with 25 to 34 year olds being the most avid tourists (travel intensity: 82.6%), and persons aged 65 and up travelling less (58.9%).
Overall, in the course of the year 2011, 5.3 million enthusiastic tourists from Austria undertook 16.4 million holiday trips within Austria and abroad; slightly more than half of the trips were domestic (50.3%). While the average length of stay for domestic holidays lies at 3.8 nights, holidays abroad average 6.8 nights. Accordingly this accounted for more overnights at foreign destinations (64.0%).
Peak travel time was the 3rd quarter of 2011: this period (July - September) accounted for a total of 6.5 million (39.6%) of all holiday trips, with significantly more major trips with a minimum of four nights (63.9%) than short vacation trips (1 to 3 nights). Further, 3.9 million holiday trips (23.8%) were made in the 2nd quarter of 2011 (April - June). The least amount of holiday trips were made in the 1st quarter of 2011 (January - March: 2.7 million vacation trips; share 16.5%) and in the 4th quarter of 2011 (October - December: 3.3 million vacation trips; share 20.1%). In these two quarters significantly more domestic vacations were undertaken than vacations abroad: 68.4% (1st quarter) and 55.8% (4th quarter) of all trips were spent in Austria.
The most popular form of transportation is undisputedly the car: In 63.4% of all leisure trips the car was used, for domestic travel the proportion was even higher at 81.5%. Considering holiday trips abroad the aircraft (37.0%) was in second place after the car; which lost significance with 45.2%.
Hotels and similar establishments were most often chosen as accommodation (54.0%) in leisure travel, followed by private accommodations free of charge (22.7%). In domestic travel the use of private accommodations free of charge with 28.9% was proportionally just behind that of hotels (48.3%), whereas in foreign travel private accommodations free of charge (16.5%) were used significantly less than hotels and similar establishments (59.7%).
The most popular foreign travel destinations were Italy (22.3%), followed by Germany (15.9%), Croatia (12.4%) and Spain (6.5%).
Business Travel 2011
Overall, 1.2 million individuals living in Austria (15+), undertook at least one business trip within Austria or abroad in 2011. This corresponds to a business travel intensity of 17.4%.
In the year 2011, 3.7 million business trips were undertaken. Slightly more than half of the business trips (53.1%) were domestic, and 77.8% of the business trips lasted no longer than three overnights. Most business trips abroad went to Germany (37.3%).
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