Listening to young people: Mobility for future
3.1.3 Varying travel experience Asked “Have you ever been abroad?”, 56 % of respond- ents (n = 1,458) indicated they had been abroad more than ten times. 26.3 % stated they had been abroad between three and ten times. Respondents were also asked what reasons they had had for travelling abroad the last three times. They (n = 1,468) could choose multiple options. The most fre- quent responses were holiday/tourism (74.7 %), visiting friends (22.9 %), class or school trip or exchange (21.7 %) and volunteering (15.9 %). Asked where they got the information they needed for those last three trips, again respondents (n = 1,468) could indicate multiple options. Of the 14 available options, the most frequently chosen ones were blogs/web- sites/other online information sources (54.6 %), parents (40.4 %), friends (38.7 %), travel guides/books (29.6 %) and social media (27.5 %). Asked whether their friends travel abroad (n = 1,454), the majority (53.2 %) stated “Yes, some do”, while 42.2 % said “Yes, many do”.
In regard to general travel habits (n = 1,378), most young respondents stated that they travelled a few times a year within their current country of residence (39.6 %). 22.2 % indicated they travelled inside their country of residence between once and three times a year, and 20 % stated they travelled domestically once a month. Only a small number (2.4 %) stated they never travelled.
German Estonian Finnish French Turkish Chinese
Total
Never
1.5 % 4.9 % 0.0 % 3.5 % 2.1 % 8.3 %
2.4 %
Once to three times a year
19.0 % 12.3 % 27.2 % 28.9 % 18.3 % 43.1 % 22.2 %
A few times a year
41.4 % 42.0 % 42.4 % 40.6 % 28.2 % 34.7 % 39.6 %
Once a month
23.1 % 17.3 % 21.7 % 13.7 % 23.2 % 5.6 %
20.0 %
More than once a month
15.0 % 23.5 % 8.7 % 13.3 % 28.2 % 8.3 %
15.7 %
Total
735
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92
256
142
72
1,378/100 %
Fig. 6 Domestic travel
When it comes to international travel (n = 1,368), 65.4 % of respondents indicated they travelled abroad between once and three times a year. 17.1 % stated they never travelled abroad, and 16.1 % said they travelled internationally a few times a year.
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