DO YOU SUPPORT THE IDEA OF THE EXPANSION OF LONDON HEATHROW TO
INCREASE CAPACITY? 19% 36% 45%
RUNNING YEAR COMPARISON Air travel Hotels
Rail
Q1 2011 28,245,394 Q1 2012 28,366,314 +0.43%
5,610,582 4,911,739 -12.46%
8,053,831 361,990 8,096,532 510,458 +0.53%
Car hire Others Total 821,702
+41.01% JANUARY-MARCH
In association with
GUILD OF TRAVEL MANAGEMENT COMPANIES QUARTERLY TRANSACTION SURVEY
43,093,500
898,956 42,784,000 +9.40% -0.72%
No Yes Not sure
Comment: Large minority support LHR expansion.
DO YOU SUPPORT THE EXPANSION OF AVIATION IN THE UK THROUGH OTHER MEANS, SUCH AS REGIONAL AIRPORT EXPANSION, NIGHT FLIGHTS OR A NEW AIRPORT?
21% 60% 19% One in 14 million No Yes Not sure
Comment: Majority support other methods of aviation expansion.
DO YOU SUPPORT THE EXPANSION OF HIGH- SPEED RAIL IN THE UK?
15% 8% 77% 22 No Yes Not sure
Comment: Significant majority support high-speed rail.
Source: ITM Industry Affairs March 2012
International Air Transport Association (IATA) figures show 486 passengers lost their lives in 22 fatal air accidents last year, but 2.8 billion passengers travelled on 38 million incident-free flights. The fatality rate works out at 0.07 deaths per million passengers, or one fatality for every 14,285,714 travellers.
Source: IATA RevPAR Source: STR Global
£213 NIGHT
PER
THE AVERAGE PRICE OF A LONDON HOTEL ROOM DURING THE OLYMPIC GAMES,
A MAJORITY (86%) of business travellers believe it is important that a central fund should be set up to pay for repatriation and reimbursement in the event of scheduled airline failures. Inspired by this year’s collapse of both Spanair and Malev, a GEBTA poll reveals that 62% of respondents would be prepared to pay a €1 levy per ticket to establish the fund.
86%
ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT
Hotels across Europe last year witnessed increases in average revenue per available room (revPAR), but British hotels fared worse than most, according to hospitality industry analyst STR Global.
Preston, Lancashire turned out to be Europe’s biggest loser. Hotels saw revPAR down 11% to an average £30.55.
Hotels in Hull saw RevPAR down 10% to £28.24, and third-from-bottom Birmingham suffered a 7.2% decline to £36.53.
Hotels at Gatwick and in Bath, Bradford and Cardiff also feature in STR’s bottom 10.