What really issues to vacationers when planning their leisure journeys in 2025? And, what insights can the journey trade achieve? For the second consecutive 12 months, Sabre, a number one journey expertise innovator, surveyed its international group members to find what journey trade insiders prioritize when reserving their very own holidays. Mixed with Sabre’s wealthy trade information, the outcomes reveal 10 key traits shaping how we journey this 12 months:
- Multi-tripping: Most survey respondents are planning to take at the very least two holidays, and a major proportion are planning 4 or extra leisure journeys;
- Vacationers from Asia Pacific are main the way in which in the case of 2025 journey plans, with a 34% enhance in bookings for the 12 months to date;
- Child Boomers are the technology most certainly to extend their journey price range;
- Vacationers are more and more in search of out of doors adventures;
- Meals is a key a part of 2025 journeys for a major variety of survey respondents;
- Airline high quality is most vital to youthful vacationers;
- Reserving ease is a key consideration for survey respondents;
- Most vacationers wish to plan forward by reserving their journeys at the very least three months prematurely;
- Vacationers are taking journeys with prolonged household to spend high quality time collectively; and
- Sustainability turns into a extra important issue for vacationers when they’re knowledgeable about their potential carbon footprint.
1. Multi-tripping
Why settle for only one trip, when you’ll be able to squeeze two into the 12 months…and even 5?
In 2025, journey is a key precedence, with most respondents planning at the very least two leisure journeys – a rise of 6% from 2024. And, in case you’re dreaming of much more trip time, you’re not alone: near 1 / 4 of survey respondents are planning 4+ journeys, a rise from final 12 months when a fifth mentioned the identical. 12% of respondents are gearing up for 5 or extra getaways in 2025, a 2% rise from final 12 months. Solely 3% of individuals mentioned they’re skipping holidays completely for 2025, a giant drop from 2024’s 9.4%.
This development can also be borne out by Sabre’s international journey insights, which affirm the prioritization of journey the world over. There are 9% extra air bookings for 2025 (when bookings produced from January via September 2024 for journey in 2025), in contrast with the identical time interval final 12 months.
“My dad instilled in me a love for journey from an early age, so I perceive the will to discover completely different cultures and see as a lot of the world as potential. Persons are undoubtedly prioritizing their journey experiences in 2025. Dad and I lately visited Iceland and Greenland collectively, including a 151st nation for him, and my 122nd nation, so I’ve acquired some catching as much as do.”
2. Asia Pacific setting the tempo
Asia Pacific (APAC) is the journey frontrunner to date for 2025. Based on Sabre’s international journey information, there may be 34% enhance in bookings made by vacationers from the area year-on-year ( bookings produced from January to September 2024 for journey in 2025), outpacing different areas.
Decrease airfares in APAC may very well be one issue driving this development. Elevated air capability within the area has resulted in fare value reductions of 10% within the first quarter and 5% within the second quarter of 2025, making journey extra accessible and serving to to gasoline demand. A rising center class in key APAC markets comparable to India, Indonesia, and Vietnam, can also be resulting in elevated journey.
“Residing and dealing in Asia, I’m privileged to commonly journey throughout the area to fulfill with our clients and to see first-hand the area’s exceptional dynamism. What is significant is that companies, airways, and the broader journey ecosystem have the scalable expertise they should get essentially the most out of this rising journey demand for his or her enterprise and their vacationers.”
Brett Thorstad, Vice President, Company Gross sales and Airline Distribution, Asia Pacific, Sabre
3. Hey, huge spenders
With elevated journey exercise in 2025, it’s no shock that family journey budgets are on the rise. Over 90% of vacationers surveyed are spending the identical or extra on journey in comparison with 2024. Nevertheless, spending habits range considerably throughout age teams.
Youthful respondents, notably Gen Z (born 1995-2012), are specializing in budget-friendly choices to stretch their journey {dollars}, with most sustaining a price range that’s similar to or solely barely larger than final 12 months.
In distinction, many Child Boomers (born 1946-1964) responded that they’re elevating their journey spend, with this technology having the very best proportion of respondents opting to spend considerably extra on journey in 2025 than they did in 2024.
“With journey budgets rising in 2025, hoteliers have a possibility to seize this elevated spending energy by delivering distinctive worth and tailor-made experiences. Vacationers, whether or not they’re looking for budget-friendly choices or indulging in elevated, luxurious stays, wish to really feel their spending is worth it. Through the use of superior retailing expertise and data-driven insights, hoteliers can assume past the room to exceed visitor expectations with experiences that resonate with the various preferences and budgets of at present’s vacationers.”
4. On the lookout for journey
The survey signifies that vacationers are embracing journey in 2025, with a rising curiosity in exploring the good outside and taking part in sporting actions throughout their leisure journeys.
Cultural experiences stay a favourite, with 46% of respondents rating visiting the likes of landmarks, monuments, museums, and galleries as their high vacation exercise. Nevertheless, journey journey is quickly gaining traction, with near 30% prioritizing out of doors pursuits and sports activities whereas on trip.
This development is very robust amongst Gen Z, the place 73% of respondents cite sports activities and out of doors actions as their most well-liked trip exercise. Whereas Gen X (born 1965-1979) and Gen Y (born 1980-1994) incorporate extra child-friendly actions into their plans, the deal with journey resurges amongst Child Boomers, who maybe have extra freedom in how they spend their time on vacation, with 45% of respondents emphasizing the significance of outside and sporting experiences of their journey itineraries.
“As we transfer additional via 2025, our survey signifies that journey journey is experiencing exceptional development throughout generations, from Gen Z looking for adrenaline-filled actions to Child Boomers rediscovering the good outside. This shift highlights a broader development: travellers at present are prioritising distinctive, significant experiences over conventional itineraries. Sabre is on the forefront of supporting these adventurous wants via progressive options comparable to our AI-driven Lodging AI and Purchasing AI instruments, in addition to our multi-source content material platform – applied sciences that empower the journey trade to ship personalised, seamless choices by dynamically analysing traveler preferences, integrating numerous content material sources, and simplifying reserving workflows.”
5. Build up an urge for food
It appears all that journey and exercise is fuelling a rising urge for food for native delicacies whereas on trip. The previous saying that the “approach to an individual’s coronary heart is thru their abdomen” holds true too for vacationers, with meals set to play a central position within the journey expertise for 2025, based on Sabre’s survey. Culinary experiences are particularly vital to Child Boomers, with 27% figuring out meals as their high trip precedence.
This deal with meals isn’t distinctive to Sabre’s findings. Analysis from the IMARC Group highlights the booming culinary tourism market, which is projected to succeed in $4.2bn by 2033 – rising at a powerful fee of over 14% yearly from 2025 to 2033. In the meantime, based on the Hilton’s 2025 traits report, extra vacationers are targeted on meals.
“For me, meals is a lot extra than simply sustenance on trip – it’s a gateway to connection. Whether or not it’s bonding with household throughout a cooking class, or sharing a meal made with domestically grown elements, meals permits us to immerse ourselves in genuine experiences and construct significant connections with the communities we go to. It’s these moments that create reminiscences and deepen the enjoyment of journey. That’s why it’s so vital that Sabre is delivering the expertise the journey trade must create the personalised experiences vacationers need.”
6. Airline high quality issues to youthful generations
Relating to reserving a visit, it’s no shock that value, vacation spot, and actions rank as the highest priorities for vacationers.
Nevertheless, an fascinating development emerges amongst youthful vacationers: though they aren’t considerably rising their journey price range for 2025, they place excessive significance on airline high quality. Practically 10% of Gen Z respondents recognized the standard of the airline as a key issue of their decision-making, with a notable portion of Gen Y vacationers echoing this sentiment. This emphasis on airline high quality presents a possibility for carriers targeted on enhancing service and fleet requirements.
“When selecting their airline, it’s clear that it isn’t a couple of ‘race to the underside’ for the bottom value. As a substitute, passengers are in search of a high quality expertise from their airline. However, what high quality means for one particular person isn’t the identical as for one more. That’s why personalization is so vital. We launched our new retailing platform, SabreMosaic, for airways in 2024 and are persevering with so as to add capabilities in 2025 in order that airways can tailor the expertise in a means that is smart for his or her passengers and their enterprise.”
7. Reserving ease
The survey signifies that reserving ease is especially vital to Gen X and Gen Y, indicating a powerful alternative for the journey trade to create a extra seamless, tailor-made approach to e-book journey. These touring with youngsters responded that also they are extra prone to e-book a tour package deal than different sorts of traveler; possible valuing the comfort and construction these packages present.
“At the moment’s digital native traveler has limitless choices for a way and what to e-book. All that alternative can rapidly turn out to be overwhelming. Simply as we don’t wish to scroll endlessly via each film on Netflix, or each product on Amazon, vacationers need confidence that they’re being introduced with the perfect choices for his or her wants with out every part themselves. Now’s the chance for journey brokers to curate the proper journey. To take action successfully, journey brokers want superior expertise to sift via the huge array of choices and current essentially the most related ones to their shoppers. That’s why we developed our multi-source content material platform to unravel content material fragmentation, empowering companies to match, store, e-book, and repair all sorts of journey content material with ease.”
Madhavan Kasturi, Head of International Resolution Engineering, Sabre
8. Early hen bookings
Reserving home windows—the time between reserving and journey—can present traveler confidence, with longer home windows reflecting better optimism. Nevertheless, an extended interval between reserving and date of journey doesn’t essentially imply extra journey; this may merely replicate adjustments in when individuals are selecting to e-book their 2025 journeys.
Sabre’s analysis reveals 52% of survey respondents buying flight tickets three to 6 months earlier than departure – a 14% enhance in comparison with the identical interval final 12 months. In the meantime, 14% of vacationers are reserving at the very least six months prematurely, marking a 4% uptick.
International reserving information from Sabre echoes these traits, exhibiting essentially the most important development in bookings made even additional prematurely. Particularly, journey deliberate for October 2025 is exhibiting a major uptick, most notably for vacationers reserving from APAC who’re planning journeys across the Golden Week journey interval in China, the place numerous public holidays come collectively to offer a full week off work.
” The managed journey class stays vital, and the journey trade’s success – each for our provide companions and our journey advisors – will hinge on capturing demand early by delivering related and personalised content material to finish vacationers. Platforms like Sabre Content material Companies for Lodging, together with merchandise like Lodging Retailer and Lodging AI will play a pivotal position on this, using superior machine-learning capabilities from Google to tailor lodging, automobile, and rail choices to fulfill traveler and company preferences with precision and confidence.”
9. Household first – touring with prolonged household
Most respondents are touring with youngsters, adopted by these touring as {couples}. Nevertheless, the survey outcomes point out that there’s a considerably larger share of respondents in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) in addition to in North America who’re journeys with prolonged household.
This development is mirrored in different trade analysis. For instance, Seashores Resorts and Censuswide discovered vacationers are prioritizing high quality time with grandparents and prolonged household interactions on trip. Their survey discovered 69% of fogeys would love grandparents to hitch them for extra trip time. In the meantime, analysis in Asia by Reserving.com discovered 47% of households worth bonding time as the highest good thing about intergenerational journey.
Sabre international reserving information additionally reveals that multi-person bookings are seeing a year-on-year increase, with group bookings for seven folks exhibiting a 14% enhance, and for eight or extra folks, the rise is near 1 / 4 at 23% (bookings produced from January via September 2024 for journey throughout 2025).
10. Sustainability counts – when it’s seen
Sabre’s survey means that sustainability is taking part in an more and more vital position in vacationers’ choices, particularly when clear data is supplied. Whereas value and comfort stay high priorities, Sabre’s survey highlights the ability of consciousness in shaping sustainable decisions. When introduced with information on lower-emission choices, 54% of respondents mentioned they thought of carbon emissions of their choice making. Amongst them, over 5% mentioned they might select essentially the most eco-friendly flight even at a better value, whereas 49% mentioned they might favor decrease carbon-emitting flights when costs have been similar to different choices.
“These findings have illuminated a robust fact: sustainability issues when it’s seen. Our survey outcomes spotlight the rising affect of sustainability data on journey choices. Whereas value and comfort typically take priority, vacationers are more and more open to creating extra eco-conscious decisions. By offering clear information on carbon emissions, in Sabre’s case, sourced from the Journey Influence Mannequin, we are able to empower vacationers to make knowledgeable choices that scale back their influence on our planet. It’s clear that sustainability is not a distinct segment concern; it’s changing into a mainstream consideration, and we’ve got the chance to prepared the ground.”
Because the survey signifies that vacationers are embracing extra journeys, allocating greater budgets, and approaching the remainder of 2025 with elevated confidence, the deal with significant experiences, high quality household time, and sustainability continues to develop. Journey is a crucial precedence, and delivering on these expectations requires clever, open, modular, and scalable expertise to anticipate and reply to evolving traits. By embracing the correct instruments, the trade can present the tailor-made, seamless experiences vacationers search – making certain their journeys are as fulfilling and memorable as potential – for 2025 and the years forward.
