Survey: Americans Still Traveling, Not Changing Travel Plans

March 27, 2003

Survey: Americans Still Traveling, Not Changing Travel Plans
The U.S. war with Iraq has created a great deal of uncertainty for travelers, but a recent survey conducted by Fodor’s Travel revealed that the war will not cause respondents to change their travel plans.

In the online survey conducted March 19-22, an impressive 76 percent of the 896 Americans polled said that they were not changing their plans to travel and are continuing on their trip.

The start of the war apparently has not changed Americans’ sentiments about travel. In a similar survey conducted by Fodor’s the week of March 10, before the war began, those polled were asked if the fear of war against Iraq made them change their travel plans. The responses were nearly identical to those of the most recent survey. Of the 1,197 respondents in the earlier survey, 76 percent said they were not going to change their plans and were going to go on their previously scheduled trip.

In the most recent survey, women are more likely than men to continue with their travel plans. The survey found that the 78 percent of women are not going to change their plans now that the nation is at war, compared to 71 percent of men.