While the period of post-pandemic “revenge travel” may be over, the numbers of people taking trips to destinations far from their home country show no signs of slowing down.
In its annual 2024 Travel Outlook Report, investment company and Fidelity brand IPX 1031 found that 50% of Americans plan to travel more in 2024 than they did in 2023, while global numbers showed 1.3 billion international arrivals last year — a number that is predicted to surpass the 1.47 billion record set in 2019.
While European destinations like Italy and Portugal saw unprecedented numbers of visitors in 2022 and 2023, flight aggregator and travel booking platform Kayak identified the African continent as seeing the biggest increase in travel interest throughout 2024. While the biggest numbers come from North American visitors considering Sub-Saharan countries such as Kenya and Ghana, travel searches for the entire continent are up 6% year-over-year.