Accommodation booking site Agoda recently conducted a survey on holiday booking trends in Asia between 2015 and 2016.
The findings revealed that Malaysian travellers tend to plan and book their holidays less than a month, or an average of 24.4 days to be exact, before travelling.
This makes Malaysians the least forward-planning travellers in the world!
Nowadays, social media is flooded with images of spontaneous travellers and the excitement of planning holidays on-the go.
But in actual fact, people around the world are beginning to see the value in spending more time preparing and planning for their holidays in to get the most out of their well-deserved break.
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According to Agoda’s Global Director of brand and communications Andy Edwards, the current trend is shifting more towards advanced booking with an average global increase of two-day earlier booking compared to the previous year.
This is opposite of the so-called “instant gratification” age we are living in now.
For instance, people in Hong Kong tend to book their holidays about two times earlier (49.4 days on average) than Malaysians, making them the most organised and forward-planning travellers for the second consecutive year.
Here are the complete survey results by Agoda:
Top Five Forward Planners:
- Hong Kong (49.4 days)
- Russia (46.4 days)
- Australia (44.3 days)
- Taiwan (43.3 days)
- United Kingdom (37.2 days)
- Malaysia (24.4 days)
- India (21.7 days)
- Vietnam (18.7 days)
- Indonesia (18.0 days)
- Saudi Arabia (16.9 days)
So start planning your holidays in advance! Just because you have an organised travel itinerary doesn’t mean that you can’t be an adventurous traveller!