86 percent of GCC Residents Intend to Travel Internationally Post Covid-19

As countries start to come out of lockdown and slowly lift their restrictions, GCC travellers are planning future trips and gearing up for travel. The recentTravel Sentiment Surveyconducted by AllDetails, a Dubai based travel tourism, hospitality, lifestyle and communications agency, in conjunction with ONEST, revealed that GCC residents intend to travel again soon, preferring international destinations.

The survey was conducted amongst residents and citizens of the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia in order to understand their sentiment towards travel during the Covid19 pandemic. 83% have said that they enjoy thinking about travel during this period while 56% of the respondents admitted that they were negatively affected by Covid-19 news.

The respondents expect to have some health security guarantees in place to travel again and will then travel as soon as 2 to 4 weeks after the travel restrictions have been lifted; for both leisure and business purposes. The survey revealed that 72% of GCC travellers will travel for leisure, with a change in scenery being their first priority and 80% will travel for a duration of one week or more.

The survey shows that young travellers between 21 34 years of age are more cautious and would wait longer than the older age group of 35 64 years, to travel again. However, respondents across all age groups enjoy thinking and reading about travel during the pandemic.

The sentiment across the region is very much a resounding Yes! to travel as soon as it is safe to do so. The period of lockdown has made us all realise that we were taking our freedom to travel and experience new places and cultures for granted. I believe we have all been writing our bucket lists and thinking about all the new places we want to visit and experience as well as re-visiting our old favourites once again. We have been dreaming about travel over the last few weeks and are all longing to start exploring again soon, said Isabel Tapp, Founder CEO of AllDetails.

Based in Dubai and operating across the GCC region for over 15 years, AllDetails is considered the most influential consultancy in travel, tourism and hospitality in the Middle East. The award-winning agency is a part of the Travel Lifestyle Network a global alliance of travel and lifestyle communications specialists.

The Survey was developed by AllDetails in collaboration with ONEST, an innovative European company specializing in helping businesses and governments make sense of the world around them using data and intelligence.

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About AllDetails Middle East

AllDetails Middle East is anaward-winningintegrated PR and Communications agency based in Dubai and operating across the GCC region. Considered the most influential consultancy in travel tourism and hospitality, AllDetails works with some of the worlds most recognizable brands on product and service launches as well as profile building, communications strategies and long-term brand awareness. The teams multi-cultural collective experience blends the best of traditional and digital PR to help brands tell engaging stories that stimulate conversation and influence consumer behaviour. We are not your average PR agency, we offer a personal, multi-service approach with consistently outstanding results.We break out of the cookie cutter mouldwith a consultancy service that aligns its interests and results with our clients.

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About ONEST

ONEST is a bold and innovative company that aims to have a meaningful positive impact on society by helping businesses and governments make sense of the world around them using data. The aim of ONEST is to be the decision-makers co-pilot by delivering affordable yet highly effective Market Research and Intelligence via owned and earned data.

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