The Sony Bank survey on sentiment to overseas travel, which was conducted between October 10 and 22 2023, finds that the ratio of respondents who plan to travel overseas within a year was 40%, higher than 28% in the previous survey a year ago. Asked if you want to travel overseas more than before, 42% said ‘Yes.’
The top concern was ‘exchange rate’ at 72%, but the ratio was 3 lower points than the previous survey. The second was ‘security’ at 57%, higher than 46% previously. The ratio of concerns about ‘COVOD-19’ largely reduced from 56% a year ago to 25%.
Amid weak Yen, the ratio of people who are saving more money than usual for the future overseas travel increased from 15% previously to 18%.
