Skift Travel Health Index

Skift Travel Health Index: October 2024 Highlights

Skift Travel Health Index

Skift Travel Health Index: October 2024 Highlights

November 2024
21 min read
Saniya Zanpure

Skift Take

The global Travel Health Index was 110 in October 2024, indicating 10% growth above 2023. The transportation sectors showed significant growth, with car rentals and aviation growing 27% and 19%, respectively.

Report Overview

This report highlights the latest insights from the Skift Travel Health Index. The index covers travel’s performance since January 2020, up to and including October 2024.

The Skift Travel Health Index is a real-time measure of the performance of the travel industry at large, and the core verticals within it. The Index provides the travel industry with a powerful tool for strategic planning, which is of utmost importance as times remain uncertain.

Skift Research launched the Index in May 2020 as the Skift Recovery Index. At the start of 2022 we rebranded the Index as the Skift Travel Health Index, to reflect some far-ranging changes: the addition of many more indicators, additional data partners, and most importantly, our continued effort to track the industry health beyond the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.

2024 brings new data partners into the fold. Cloudbeds has started to provide us with ADR and Occupancy data for hotel stays, and The Data Appeal Company is providing us with data on travel sentiment, flight searches and flight bookings, strengthening the index.

We are also thankful for the continued support of our other data partners: Amadeus, Aviasales, Beyond, CarTrawler, Cendyn, Collinson, Criteo, Duetto, Hotelbeds, Key Data Dashboard, Lighthouse, Nium, OAG, Onyx CenterSource, RateGain, Shiji Group, Skyscanner, Sojern, TravelgateX, and TrustYou. Their data allows us to provide you with a monthly assessment of travel’s performance.