Almost 90% of Thais find ‘work-cations’ appealing, Airbnb reveals –

As travel begins to see a comeback, Airbnb sees an emerging trend across Asia-Pacific as people take their work from home learnings to enjoy extended work-cations and opt to live anywhere.

According to a recent YouGov survey commissioned by Airbnb1 87% of Thai people found an extended work-cation appealing, the most of any country surveyed in APAC. This interest to work from anywhere is supported by a growth in long-term stays on Airbnb’s platform, with Thailand ranking second globally with the greatest share of long-stay bookings.

Driving Thailand’s desire to work from anywhere is the ability of its workforce to do so, following a global pandemic that has kickstarted a work-from-home revolution. According to the survey findings, since the start of the pandemic one in three workers (34%) in Thailand were allowed to work from home by their…