Analysis

Each week, CAPA – Centre for Aviation produces informative, thought provoking and detailed market analysis of the aviation industry. With supporting data included in every analysis, CAPA provides unrivalled and unparalleled intelligence.

Here’s some of the reports published over the past week.

CTC – Corporate Travel Community each week brings you a roundup of the most thought-provoking and interesting comments from those industry leaders in the know.

They say ‘a picture paints a thousand words’. In this regular section CTC – Corporate Travel Community incorporates and expands on the popular charts produced in the 2020 air capacity series ‘Coronavirus Statistics Snapshot’.

These are sourced from CAPA - Centre for Aviation analysis of OAG schedule data and incorporates seat detail from CAPA's own database.

It offers a weekly look at how the pandemic is impacting global flight levels and seat capacity in the world’s largest markets.

While businesses across the world are championing its female leaders on International Women's Day, new research finds that women travellers are more likely to take measures to protect their safety during business travel than men.

On a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women and a focal point in the women's rights movement, bringing attention to issues such as gender equality, reproductive rights, and violence and abuse against women, the findings from global travel risk management organisation, World Travel Protection, highlights that there remains a big gap in equality.

IHG Hotels & Resorts is pursuing an ambitious expansion plan in Greater China that explores popular and emerging destinations. Leveraging its global experience, deep local insights, and a rich brand portfolio, the company is positioning itself to respond to increasing domestic travel demand and welcome Chinese and international travellers alike in the new era of travel.

IHG currently has 12 brands in Greater China, with a total of more than 1,000 hotels operating or under the pipeline. This year, it will continue to expand its footprint in Greater China, covering more than 200 cities.

Each week, CAPA – Centre for Aviation produces informative, thought provoking and detailed market analysis of the aviation industry. With supporting data included in every analysis, CAPA provides unrivalled and unparalleled intelligence.

Here’s some of the reports published over the past week.

At a time of crisis, it is important that we share our insights and experience, helping each other to contain and mitigate the impact of COVID-19.

CTC – Corporate Travel Community each week brings you a roundup of the most thought-provoking and interesting comments from those industry leaders in the know.

They say ‘a picture paints a thousand words’. In this regular section CTC – Corporate Travel Community incorporates and expands on the popular charts produced in the 2020 air capacity series ‘Coronavirus Statistics Snapshot’.

These are sourced from CAPA - Centre for Aviation analysis of OAG schedule data and incorporates seat detail from CAPA's own database.

It offers a weekly look at how the pandemic is impacting global flight levels and seat capacity in the world’s largest markets.

There is a growing sense that lower levels of business flying are here to stay, with many still expecting top executives to set corporate flying reduction targets, driven by cost savings, changing travel habits and sustainability needs.

Messaging regarding the recovery of the business travel segment remains mixed.

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of the industry’s leading voices have claimed that business travel will never fully recover due to changing working habits – namely, remote working and digital nomadism; company cost reduction; and a growing awareness of environmental issues.

Indeed, international business travel has been recovering at a much slower rate than leisure tourism.

New insights from hotel benchmarking specialist STR shows further positive signs in the recovery of the global hotel industry, with particularly encouraging signs across the Asia Pacific region where the continued removal of restrictions has allowed properties across the region to more freely open their doors to guests.

Southeast Asia and Northeastern Asia sat at the lower end of recovery compared to other STR-defined subcontinents in terms of occupancy and average daily rate (ADR) in 2022. But, significant improvements are to be expected as the Asia Pacific region returns to normalcy.