1 out of 4 of U.S. Remote Workers Took Extended Trips: New Skift Research Travel Tracker
Skift Take
Remote work is here to stay and its impact on travel is starting to grow significantly. Twenty-three percent of American remote workers in our September survey said they had taken long trips as a result of working remotely, a sharp increase from eight months ago. Travel companies need to take note of how to serve this rising travel segment.
The surge of the Delta variant didn’t make too much a dent to the recovering travel industry in the U.S. According to Skift Research’s newly released U.S. Travel Tracker: September 2021 Highlights report, 47 percent of Americans traveled in September, only a 1.7-percentage-point drop from a record-setting July.
With declining new cases and rising vaccination rates, the travel industry may have put the worst behind it again, for now.
One of the trends that stood out in the September survey is the steady increase of remote workers who have taken extended trips of more than 10 days as
