20 Charts Showing Surprising Trends in Global Last-Minute Travel
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What travelers search for and what they actually book are horses of different colors and these insights highlight exactly how that plays out around the world.
People's lives and schedules are often unpredictable and in many cases the days of planning travel several months in advance are long gone.
Last-minute travel is the only way for some travelers to take a vacation or short getaway but their searches on booking sites don't always match up with what they actually end up booking in terms of destinations, party sizes and length of trip, evidenced in the charts below created by travel data company Sojern.
The first two charts for each continent illustrate last-minute search data and the second set of charts show actual booking data. These searches and bookings are for air travel between April and June
