An awareness survey on travel or how to play to 15 to 24 years old, conducted SHIBUYA109.lab, a marketing research institute, finds that about 80% have felt changes of friendship, while 21.4% have felt nothing changes.
The survey results also shows tendencies to spend time with close friends or a small group and also at home, in hometown or in open air environment to avoid busy urban areas.
Domestic travel frequency reduced from 2.17 times a year before the pandemic to 0.96 times a year amid the pandemic. Travel intension after the pandemic is 2.80 times a year.
Interestingly, a certain number of respondents said that they posted photos with a sub-account, not with a main account, on SNS when they traveled amid the pandemic. The answer seems to represent they worried about anyone else.
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What they did instead of traveling amid the pandemic were ‘driving (26.5%),’ ‘saving money for future travel (21.3%)’ and ‘watching travel videos (19.5%).’
69.5% answered the next travel after the pandemic ends would be ‘long-haul domestic travel’, followed by ‘short-haul domestic travel (62.8%)’ and ‘traveling to Europe (34.3%).’
