U.S., Feb. 27 -- According to a European travel analytics company, the travel setback caused by the coronavirus outbreak has now hit the world's second-largest outbound travel market, after China, the USA. In the five weeks following the imposition of travel restrictions on outbound travel from China (w/c January 20 th - w/c February 17 th ), there was a 19.3% decline in the number of bookings made for travel from the USA. The majority of the decline has been caused by a collapse in bookings for travel to the Asia Pacific region, down by 87.7%. In other words, relatively few people booked a flight from the USA to the Asia Pacific region in the past five weeks.

The setback in outbound bookings from the USA during that time has not just af...