• Changes in air passenger demand as a result of the COVID-19 crisis: using Big Data to inform tourism policy 

      Gallego, Inmaculada; Font aulet, Xavier (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-06-05)
      This paper develops a methodology for the early detection of reactivation of tourist markets to help mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 crisis, using Skyscanner data on air passenger searches (>5,000 million) and picks (>600 million), for flights between November 2018 and December 2020, through ForwardKeys. For future travel during the May to September 2020 period, the desire to travel (based on ...
    • International air travel attitude and travel planning lead times across 45 countries in response to the COVID-19 pandemic 

      Gallego, Inmaculada; González-Rodríguez, M. Rosario; Font aulet, Xavier (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-11-08)
      his paper explores global differences in travel risk perception based on i) attitudes towards travel abroad, and ii) the time required to plan travel. Baseline data from 2019 is compared with data from 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. A methodology based on Big Data is developed through the Skyscanner metasearch engine, working with 20,756 million flight searches and 1979 million ...