Chase Travel and Infatuation Reveal Travel & Dining Trends for Summer 2025

The seasonal report includes top travel trends and destinations from Chase Travel, expert dining picks and insights from Infatuation’s “The Spots Of The Summer”, and new survey data revealing how consumers are dining, traveling, and spending in the months ahead.

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--As we approach the summer travel season, Chase is revealing a new lifestyle-focused report offering details into trends and insights for leisure travel and dining, from experts at both leading travel booking platform, Chase Travel, and restaurant discovery platform, The Infatuation.

Overall, Chase Travel booking data shows a 14%¹ year-over-year increase in travel bookings this summer and survey data from the report indicates continued interest in consumers’ dining and traveling spend: 73% of respondents say they are more likely to dine out and 38% anticipate spending more than usual on travel in the summer.

Summer Dining & Travel Trends

• The busiest travel days this summer so far are June 5 and June 19. When looking around the 4^th of July holiday, June 27 and July 3 are the busiest days.¹
• Food as a driver for travel: 77% of respondents are interested in planning trips centered around a destination’s food and restaurant options, and 70% would travel 30 minutes or more to another city for a meal.²
• Italy is a top food and shopping destination, with 55% of respondents eager to travel there for pasta, specifically. Additionally, 38% are keen to visit Italy for leather goods, making it a popular choice after France, where 45% are interested in shopping for wine.² The Infatuation has travelers covered with its extensive guide on Where To Eat In Italy This Summer.
• Increased demand for premium travel: Chase Travel booking data shows a growth in premium travel with a 21% year-over-year increase in premium air bookings over the summer months.¹
• Earlier dinner times are becoming more popular: 51% of Gen-X prefer early evening dinner reservations during the summer (5:00pm-6:30pm); meanwhile 57% of Gen-Z and 52% of Millennials prefer dining between 7:00pm-8:30pm in the summer.²
• Dessert orders rise with the temperatures: 62% of respondents are more likely to treat themselves to dessert over the summer² and Infatuation search data shows searches for ice cream spots doubled when looking at the weeks leading up to summer.³

The Places To Be

Top Trending Summer Destinations: Lakes, National Parks, and International Escapes

Based off year-over-year booking growth on Chase Travel¹

Chase Travel has curated travel guides on select spots, including: San Juan, Copenhagen, and Vietnam as one of Chase Travel’s top destinations for 2025.

1. Madison, Wisconsin
2. San Juan, Puerto Rico
3. Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
4. Lisbon, Portugal
5. Osaka, Japan
6. Glacier National Park (Kalispell)
7. Shanghai, China
8. Traverse City, Michigan
9. Copenhagen, Denmark
10. Tokyo, Japan

Increased Value Destinations

Based off year-over-year Chase Travel booking data¹

1. Beijing, China (-18% in average air ticket price)
2. Osaka, Japan (-18% in average air ticket price)
3. Toronto, Canada (-16% in average hotel daily rate)
4. Honolulu, Hawaii (-15% in average hotel daily rate)
5. Amsterdam (-14% in average hotel daily rate)
6. Jackson, Wyoming (-11% in average air ticket price)
7. West Palm Beach, Florida (-10% in average air ticket price)
8. Cancun, Mexico (-10% in average hotel daily rate)
9. Denver, Colorado (-9% in average hotel daily rate)
10. Nashville, Tennessee (-8% in average hotel daily rate)

Infatuation’s Top Dining Picks of the Summer*

See Infatuation’s full guide to the best restaurants and bars to soak up the season: “The Spots Of The Summer”.

• New York City: Crevette for people-watching with pastis gimlets seafood
• Los Angeles: Not No Bar for tropical drinks, disco, and pizza
• Chicago: Parson's Chicken & Fish for a classic patio and frozen negronis
• Atlanta: Madeira Park for a new wine bar scene
• Austin: Radio East for coffee by day and music venue by night

The information shared in this report is derived from both Travel Advisor and editorial expertise, as well as booking data from Chase Travel Group and expert dining intel from Infatuation’s “The Spots of the Summer” guide—spotlighting the best restaurants, bars, patios, rooftops, and beachside hangs across the country—as well as new survey data from Chase around summer dining, traveling, and consumer spending habits.

Chase cardmembers have access to a variety of travel and dining benefits and information to elevate their summer experiences. Notably, Sapphire Reserve cardmembers can enjoy complimentary travel planning with a Reserve Travel Designer to craft personalized itineraries, explore a curated selection of hand-picked hotels and exclusive benefits through The Edit by Chase Travel, exclusive dining benefits in partnership with Infatuation like perks at food festivals, receive invitations to events at some of the country's most exciting restaurants, and gain access to coveted dinner reservations. To explore these dining benefits and experiences, click here.

Methodology

¹ These figures are based on Chase Travel air and lodging reservations for travel between 6/1/2025 and 8/31/2025, compared with the same periods one year earlier.

² This quantitative survey was conducted between April 22 to April 30, 2025 among the following sample of n=4,038 respondents who identify as either a traveler, diner, and/or shopper. Results from the full survey have a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points using 95% confidence level. Some demographics may be weighted with fewer variables depending on data availability.

³ These figures are based off Infatuation web search data with the “weeks leading up to the summer” including data between 4/1/2025-5/2/2025 and data from last summer (6/1/2024-8/31/2024.)

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