Greater than half of vacationers would contemplate reserving their transportation to and from the airport via their airline or on-line journey agent – however availability and consciousness is holding them again

DUBLIN, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Airport mobility past automotive rental, or how shoppers journey to and from the airport, is a €50-60 billion ($60-70 billion) market alternative for the journey sector, in response to an industry-first survey of 11,500 vacationers from CarTrawler, the world’s main B2B journey expertise firm. Regardless of the potential market dimension, there was minimal knowledge on the economics, and no analysis on traveler’s airport mobility preferences. This report units out to grasp the alternatives that the journey {industry} has to faucet into the market.

The report, The Airport Mobility Alternative, discovered 60% of airport journeys are made by both non-public automotive or rental automotive for North American vacationers. Whereas the journey {industry} has targeted largely on automotive rental in terms of airport mobility, there are seven occasions as many at-airport switch bookings (together with non-public switch, ride-hailing, taxi, and shared shuttle) as there are at-airport automotive rental bookings — creating house for on-line journey companies, airways, inns and journey administration corporations to assist vacationers attain their closing mile.

Vacationers are already trying to their airways and journey companies for airport mobility choices, with greater than half of them reporting that they’d contemplate reserving their airport switch with their airline (51%) or on-line journey agent (60%). The largest hurdles in doing so nevertheless are an absence of choices and consciousness. Solely 44 of the highest 100 airways supply mobility choices outdoors of automotive rental. For those who do supply a mobility choice, vacationers’ consciousness of these choices is low, with almost a 3rd (30%) of vacationers reporting that they don’t contemplate airways for mobility as a result of they weren’t conscious they supplied these choices.

“There’s clear, pent up demand amongst vacationers to stay with their airline or journey company for his or her whole airport journey, not simply the flight itself,” mentioned Aileen McCormack, Chief Business Officer at CarTrawler. “Journey corporations that need to surpass the competitors ought to take note of the evolving wants of vacationers, and actively handle gaps in each choices and consciousness — making a extra seamless journey expertise whereas maximizing ancillary income. This CarTrawler report reveals simply how important the chance is for airways and OTAs to supply that enhanced journey expertise, develop income and really personal the final mile.”

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About CarTrawler
CarTrawler is the main international B2B supplier of automotive rental and mobility options to the journey {industry}. Our objective is to drive profitable partnerships.

CarTrawler’s end-to-end expertise platform expands our airline and journey companions’ providing to their prospects, creating substantial ancillary income alternatives. We offer unrivalled breadth and depth of content material worldwide, together with automotive rental, non-public airport switch and ride-hailing companies.

CarTrawler creates progressive, data-led options for a number of the largest journey manufacturers on the planet, together with United Airways, American Categorical, easyJet, Alaska Airways, SWISS, Resorts.com and Emirates. As a B2B firm we focus solely on serving to our airline and journey companions construct their manufacturers, not our personal.

SOURCE CarTrawler