Don’t want to travel? Many in Japan say they will “never go again”.

Everyone seems to travel.

The data shows that individuals are traveling more often and for longer periods of time, with many planning big to-do list trips this yr.

But that is not the fact for everybody.

Another group of persons are quietly emerging from the pandemic and are not any longer interested in traveling.

A survey of 16,000 adults in 15 countries by the worldwide intelligence firm Morning Consult found that Asia is home to the very best percentage of people that said they would “never travel again”.

About 15% of South Korean and 14% of Chinese respondents said they would never go again Morning Consult State of Travel and Hospitality Report. published in August.

North America isn’t far behind, with 14% of American and 11% of Mexican respondents saying the identical.

However, no country got here close to the reluctance to travel shown by Japan, where around 35% of respondents said they had no intention of traveling again.

The survey checked out “any sort of recreational travel” and didn’t distinguish between domestic and international travel plans, said Lindsey Roeschke, a travel and hospitality analyst at Morning Consult.

The respondents were surveyed twice this yr: in April and July, she said. During this time, confidence in traveling increased amongst other Japanese respondents, including those that said they planned to travel in the subsequent three months (+7 points) and the subsequent 12 months (+4 points).

But in each surveys, “the variety of ‘never travelers’ … remained the identical in Japan,” Roeschke said.

Even with increasing travel intentions, rates in Japan lag far behind other countries, including North Asia, according to the report.

Some 45% of Japanese respondents said they intended to travel next yr, compared with 65% in China and 66% in South Korea, the survey found.

By contrast, 77% of German respondents said they plan to travel in the subsequent 12 months.

Some 386,000 Japanese travelers went abroad in August – a far cry from the estimated 2.1 million who went abroad in August 2019, according to Japan’s National Tourism Organization.

Hideki Furuya, a professor at Japan’s Toyo University who studies tourist behavior, said one reason was a cultural “risk aversion preference”.

He said peer pressure would also keep travelers close to home if the danger of contracting Covid-19 is high.

Tetsuya Hanada, managing director of food and travel company Tabimori Inc., believes funds are a good more vital factor.

“You could say that the pandemic has reduced the variety of Japanese who select to go abroad, but I feel the weaker yen had a much bigger impact,” he told CNBC Travel.

After a surge in international travel in the Seventies, the variety of Japanese nationals traveling abroad has largely stagnated for the reason that mid-Nineteen Nineties, according to statistics from the Japanese National Tourism Organization.

Roughly the identical variety of Japanese nationals traveled abroad in 2000 and 2017 – around 18 million – though the timeframe was considered one of the incredible increases in international travel worldwide.

“Language barrier and lack of consecutive holidays are a number of the the explanation why domestic travel is preferred,” Furuya said, adding that “a working environment that makes it difficult to take paid holidays” is one other factor.

He also cited the appeal of Japan’s nature, history and culture as an added incentive to stay close to home.

This will put additional pressure on destinations popular with Japanese tourists, namely Taiwan, South Korea and Hawaii.

But Hanada said that over time, Japanese residents will likely travel again.

“The Japanese are easily influenced by the bulk, and that is the mood that will change in five years,” he said.

Furuya said he expects it not to take that long.

“After seeing and hearing how lively Westerners are, we expect a return to pre-2020 demand for international travel sooner moderately than later,” he said.

Outside of Japan, other travelers say they too have lost their travel glow.

The British artist referred to as Miles Takes told CNBC Travel that “international travel still seems distant to him.”

“I’ve loved to travel in the past and as recently as this yr I traveled to Singapore and Poland from London,” he said. But “each of those trips caused anxiety, which has since worsened significantly.”

He said a mix of things had put him off traveling, including Covid, travel disruption and having a partner who needed medical care.

Singaporean Daniel Chua says he’s in no hurry to travel for “mixed reasons”.

But Covid isn’t considered one of them, he said.

He said a business trip to Europe in June exposed him to a “mess” of flight delays and staff shortages. Additionally, he said that virtual meetings are a more efficient use of working time.

Chua also cited sustainability as a disincentive to travel, calling it “a core belief in my work and private life.”

But he admitted that he’s surrounded by individuals who travel.

“I do not talk to them about why I’m not traveling in order not to burst their bubble or, you realize, be a celebration animal throughout the whole celebration,” he said. “For me, it’s a private decision.

Chua said he believes there are more individuals who feel like him but travel due to peer pressure or due to FOMO – or “fear of missing out”.

But none of them affect him, he said.

“I’ve traveled loads before,” he said. “There is not any specific country in the world that I really want to visit immediately.”