A survey showed that 45% of Asians cannot travel without their mobile phones, ensuring not to forget their mobile phones when on a vacation, while most westerners take care to not miss their credit cards on holidays.
The survey, conducted online in February 2014, asked over 50,000 Agoda.com customers from all over the world what they least wanted to forget on vacation. Asian and Western travellers have different priorities when packing for a trip, as per a release.
Forty-five per cent of travelers from Asia said their mobile phone was the one item they did not want to forget; credit cards came in second with 29 per cent of the votes. But for Europeans and travellers from the Americas, credit cards were far more important than phones.
Forty-seven per cent of travellers from Europe picked credit cards as the item they would least like to forget; for travellers from the Americas it was 44 per cent. Only 19 per cent of Europeans and travellers from the Americas picked mobile phones. The French had the largest disparity between these two items—58 per cent picked their credit card as the one thing they would least like to forget, while only nine per cent picked mobile phones.
Mobile phones were clearly the priority among travelers from Asia, with one exception, the Japanese. They were the only group in the continent to choose credit cards over mobile phones, 38 per cent to 28 per cent.
When it came to reading, nine per cent of travelers from Europe and the Americas chose a good book as the one item they’d least like to forget, while from Asia only five per cent chose books.
Laptops or tablets were chosen by 18 per cent of travelers from the Americas, 13 per cent of Europeans, and only 11 per cent Asians.
Despite all of these differences, travelers from around the world seemed to agree that toiletries were among the least important items to pack, only four per cent of travelers from the Americas and Asia and five per cent of travelers from Europe chose them as the item they least wanted to forget.--Source: Travel Biz Monitor