Richmond, Virginia & Shorewood, Wisconsin, 15 August 2023:  Allianz Partners, a global leader in travel protection and consumer specialty insurance, and IdeaWorksCompany, the foremost consultant on ancillary revenue, have released the second edition of The Allianz Partners Big Book of Travel Data by IdeaWorksCompany.

The 2023 publication, which expands on last year’s edition, provides a world of industry data for airlines, hotel groups, car rental companies, and online travel agencies (OTAs), and is collated by alphabetical order, size, region, and more.  The 120-page “Big Book” is available free of charge via download at AllianzPartners.com and IdeaWorksCompany.com.  The compilation of data allows for interesting comparisons; here is the list of revenue leaders in each category in 2022:

• OTAs:  $121.3 billion:  Booking Holdings (gross bookings). The company operates Agoda, Booking.com, Kayak, Priceline, and RentalCars.com websites.
  
• Hotel groups:  $61.4 billion:  Marriott International (estimated room revenue).
• Airlines:  $49 billion:  American Airlines (company revenue).
• Car rental:  $30 billion:  Enterprise Holdings (company revenue).  The company operates the Alamo, Enterprise, and National brands.

The recovery of the travel industry gained full steam during 2022 as evidenced by the annual airline traffic and revenue estimates from IdeaWorksCompany:

The Big Book is filled with statistics from all over the wide world of travel; here are a few examples from 2022:

• US & Canada had the lowest level of airline traffic growth at 35.4% compared to 2021; on top was Europe at 107.8%.
• Oneworld, SkyTeam, and Star Alliances generated estimated revenue of $413.3 billion, which represented 59.6% of global airline revenue.
• Ryanair Group is the largest low cost carrier with more than 168.6 million passengers, which represents a dramatic 73.6% increase above 2021 results.
• Low cost carriers carried 31.2% of global traffic, but their low fares only generated 16.2% of global revenue.
• H Rewards offered by Huazhu Group Limited of China is the largest frequent guest program with 199 million members.
• American Airlines was the largest employer among the 91 airlines which disclose total employment.  The carrier ended 2022 with 129,700 employees.
• RevPAR for the nine hotel groups[1] appearing in this year’s Big Book was $80.06 for 2022, which is a 50% increase above the 2021 result of $53.29. 
• Airbnb had gross booking value of $63.2 billion for 2022, which represents the customer transactions conducted on its website.  If this were compared to estimated room revenue, Airbnb would rank higher than Marriott International, which holds the top position at $61.4 billion.  Airbnb had 6.6 million active listings at the end of 2022.
  

The Big Book relies upon a number of sources and methods to determine the results for each company.  Most often this consists of financial documents at company websites, while for others the sources include press releases, and industry articles.  The Big Book of Travel Data will be released on an annual basis.

The full report is available at https://ideaworkscompany.com/reports/.   

IdeaWorksCompany offers a graphic based upon the “Travel Data Comparison of Top 10 Results” table found on page 12 of the Big Book as a JPG file at the press release section of the IdeaWorksCompany.com website.

^{[1] Accor Group, BTG Hotels Group, Choice Hotels, Hilton Hotels, Huazhu Group Limited, Hyatt Hotels Corp., IHG Hotels & Resorts, Marriott International, and Wyndham Hotel Group.}