Statistics and Demographics of Full-time Remoters and Their Job Market
How many people travel full-time? At least 93 million people worldwide. 21 million +/- of them want jobs. Because there is no full-time traveler statistical database, let alone one that identifies full-time traveler jobs and employers, itravelft.com is going to create one. Meanwhile, we’re highly qualified to extrapolate a statistical profile of the professional and lifestyle characteristics of people who permanently travel non-stop: full-time RVers, digital nomads, workampers, yacht liveaboards, extended stay travelers, vagabonds, solo travelers, deliberate hobos, etc.
US Full-time Travel Statistics Snapshot: 6,342,000 full-time travelers
1 million US citizens live in recreational vehicles (RVs)[1]
517,000 US citizens live aboard their boats full-time (extrapolation based on there are 11,500 marinas[2] in the US, the average number of slips is 449[3], assuming 10% of slip leases are liveaboards)
1.8 million extended stay hotel travelers (extrapolated from data that there are 5 million hotel rooms in the US[4], about 9% are extended stay[5] or 450,000 and average length of stay is 90 days[6])
1 million long-stay Airbnb travelers (extrapolation[7]: about 500,000 Airbnb.com properties in the US, 11% are reserved each day for 21 million bookings per year and 5% of guests stay 12 days plus[8]
1 million long-stay VRBO/HomeAway travelers (extrapolated from 530,000 VRBO/HomeAway listings[9] in the US, see calculations for airbnb above, used same formula)
300,000 long-term cruise ship passengers (extrapolated from data that 51% of 24 million cruise ship bookings are made by US citizens[10] and 2% of cruise ship bookings are 180 days or more[11])
725,000 corporate housing dwellers (extrapolation: properties in the US equal 71,201 with average stay duration of 30 days occupancy[12] and occupancy around 85%[13])
Global Full-time Travel Statistics Snapshot: 86.5 million travelers who want to work
570,000 expatriates (of the 57 million expatriates worldwide[14], .approximately 1% travel full-time[15])
65 million retirees who want to continue working while traveling (617 million people worldwide are retired[16], 55% of them want to travel[17] and approximately 19% want to continue working[18])
21 million global travelers who want to work while traveling (by 2050 there will be 9.8 billion people worldwide[19] with approximately 44% traveling annually[20], of which 49% are of working age[21] — 25 to 64 years old, if only 1% of these people want to work while traveling full-time).
Endnotes
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/11/12/million-americans-live-rvs-meet-modern-nomads/?utm_term=.1b78933c9d1a ↑
- https://marinaassociation.org/files/AMIMEIS_FullReport_Final_05-2018_wAppendix(1).pdf ↑
- https://www.marinadockage.com/2018-survey-results-show-high-occupancy-rates-revenues/ ↑
- https://www.businesstravelnews.com/Strategic-Sourcing/U-S-Hotel-Supply-Breaks-5-Million-Room-Mark ↑
- https://lodgingmagazine.com/extended-stay-segment-remains-strong-despite-new-supply/ ↑
- https://skift.com/2017/04/19/how-extended-stay-hotels-are-pivoting-towards-a-new-generation-of-travelers/ ↑
- https://ipropertymanagement.com/airbnb-statistics/ ↑
- https://blog.pillow.com/crunching-the-numbers-defining-normal-for-airbnb-hosts-and-listings/ ↑
- https://www.homeaway.com/ ↑
- https://skift.com/2015/04/17/americans-are-booking-more-cruises-than-ever-this-year/ ↑
- https://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/26/ahoy-matey-more-folks-retiring-on-a-cruise-ship.html ↑
- https://www.realtor.com/news/trends/demand-rises-furnished-rental-apartments/ ↑
- https://www.chpaonline.org/why-corporate-housing/industry-statistics/↑
- https://paragonrelocation.com/new-report-shows-record-number-of-expats-worldwide/ ↑
- https://cms-internationsgmbh.netdna-ssl.com/cdn/file/2018-09/Expat-Insider-2018_The-InterNations-Survey.pdf ↑
- https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/worlds-older-population-grows-dramatically ↑
- http://www.travelweekly.co.uk/articles/309398/travel-most-important-for-over-half-of-retired-people ↑
- https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/06/20/more-older-americans-are-working-and-working-more-than-they-used-to/ ↑
- https://www.un.org/development/desa/en/news/population/world-population-prospects-2017.html ↑
- https://www.iata.org/pressroom/pr/Pages/2013-12-30-01.aspx ↑
- https://blog.accessdevelopment.com/tourism-and-travel-statistics-the-ultimate-collection↑