SKYSCANNER has revealed that travellers from Malaysia begin planning their holidays earlier than others from around the world, according to information gathered from the travel metasearch site’s user data in June 2015.
Booking 59 days in advance before a trip is the global average. Malaysian travellers, however, book 79 days in advance to top the list, followed closely by Taiwanese travellers who plan 77 days ahead. Chinese travellers land on the other end of the spectrum, booking their itineraries only 40 days in advance.
Singaporean and Japanese travellers book 64 days in advance, placing them slightly above the global average.
In a chart dominated by Asian nations, the only two non-Asian countries are the US and the UK, logging advance bookings at 56 and 69 days respectively.
Vietnam, India and Indonesia all fall below the global average and recorded 48, 56 and 57 days accordingly.
