Record of Travels in the Third Quarter in Austria

In the third quarter, there have never been so many trips by the population in Austria since the start of travel behaviour records in 2000. A total of 9.45 million holiday trips were recorded, which is 0.8 percent more than in the comparison period of the previous year. At the same time, the proportion of car trips reached its lowest level since 2006.

Car Most Popular for Travel

60.5 percent of all holiday trips this year in the period from July to September were undertaken by car - so despite the decline, it remained the most used means of travel. The proportion of air travel returned to the pre-Corona level of 2019 (19.7 percent). The share of train travel reached the second highest value since the start of the records. Especially within Austria, people travelled more by train, with 18.8 percent of domestic trips being made by rail. For foreign travel, after the car (49.5 percent) and the plane (33.7 percent), the bus (7.8 percent) was used more frequently than the train (6.7 percent).

Increase in Long-Distance Travel

Generally, more than half of the holiday trips (57.9 percent) were spent abroad in the third quarter of this year. 42.1 percent travelled within the Alpine Republic. As in previous years, Italy (21.7 percent), Croatia (15.7 percent), Germany (11.6 percent) and Greece (6.5 percent) were the most popular destinations. Furthermore, long-distance travel increased compared to previous years - with a share of 5 percent, they reached the highest value since the Corona pandemic, although there were still more long-distance trips (6.5 percent) in the comparison period in 2019. Most trips (69 percent) were privately organised.

The new travel trend "Coolcation", which describes the longing for travel destinations with a cooler climate, for example in Northern Europe, and which was increasingly picked up by the media in the summer of 2024, could not be confirmed by the statistics: The share of Coolcation destinations in foreign travel in the third quarter was 6.9 percent and thus not as high as in other years.

(APA/Red)

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