Travel expenses higher by eco-friendly travel?
Travel expenses higher by eco-friendly travel? Table of contents Introduction The majority support sustainable travel even when travel costs go up Luggege-free trip reduce CO2 emissions Luggage-free trip also reduces travel costs Luggage-free trip improves travel convenience Introduction Expedia, the world’s largest online travel booking site, has announced the Traveler Value Index. This is a study to clarify the values that are important when booking a trip for 8,000 people in eight countries: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Mexico, the United Kingdom and the United States. The survey period will be from April 16th to May 7th, 2021. https://welcome.expediagroup.com/content/dam/marketing/welcome2eg/published-assets/whitepapers/traveler-value-index-report/EN_Traveler_Value_Index_2021.pdf The majority support sustainable travel even when travel costs go up What was interesting to me in this report was that the value of “eco-friendly travel” was higher than I had imagined. “Nearly three in five travelers (59%) are willing to increase their spend to make the trip more sustainable” they say. Recently, there have been reports of increasing environmental awareness in various fields, but I thought that the majority of people said that they would consider the environment as long as the cost burden did not increase. For example, in Japan, 80-90% of users purchase refill