Jan 12th, 2011 at 7:30AM:
The terrible floods in Queensland, Australia, have destroyed thousands of homes, done billions of dollars of damage, and have left at least a dozen people dead. Queensland is a major coal exporter, and with the rising waters hampering shipments and flooding mines, world coal prices have risen. A major consumer of Queensland coal are Asian steel mills, which are already feeling the pinch. This ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Australia floods leave tourist industry in peril
Jan 12th, 2011 at 7:30AM:
The terrible floods in Queensland, Australia, have destroyed thousands of homes, done billions of dollars of damage, and have left at least a dozen people dead. Queensland is a major coal exporter, and with the rising waters hampering shipments and flooding mines, world coal prices have risen. A major consumer of Queensland coal are Asian steel mills, which are already feeling the pinch. This ...Deloitte says business travel up for 2011, 80% to hit the road more
Nov 11th, 2010 at 3:00PM: Business travelers are back in 2011. At least, that's what global professional services firm Deloitte is saying. After two years of corporate austerity, the business traveler is taking to the skies and road again, and this has to be great news for airlines and hotels, as it's the corporate set that really brings in the cash they count on. The numbers look good for next year, according to this ...New York, Miami and Los Angeles dominant U.S. ports of entry
Oct 28th, 2010 at 1:00PM: How do people get to the United States? Well, most of them seem to come in through the same places, according to the latest data from the U.S. Department of Commerce. The top 15 ports of entry handled 83 percent of all arrivals in July 2010. This is a 2 percentage-point drop from July 2009, but it's still a substantial concentration.
Three spots were responsible for 38 percent of all incoming ...Five signs people are traveling to the U.S. from overseas, recovery in progress
Oct 27th, 2010 at 8:00AM: Travel to the United States from overseas is up drastically from last year. For the first seven months of 2010, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce, foreign visitation is up 12 percent relative to the same period in 2009. In July alone, 6.3 million people came to the country, a whopping 15 percent gain from July 2009, making it the tenth month in a row in which arrivals increased.
And, ...Australians can't wait to leave: outbound travel up 3X over 20 years
Sep 30th, 2010 at 12:00PM: It looks like the best place for vacation, if you're Australian, is anywhere else. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, outbound travel surged from 2.1 million a year to 6.8 million a year over the past 20 years. For the 12 months ending last June, 6.8 million overseas trips originated in Australia. Two decades earlier, it was only 2.1 million. At today's levels, there are 31 overseas ...Immigration law costs Arizona hotels a bundle
Sep 29th, 2010 at 1:00PM: The cost of closing down the borders may be higher than you think. At least, that's what the Arizona Hotel and Lodging Association is saying. Tourists have cut back their visits to the state, the association believes, because of the recent controversial immigration law. Tourism and travel companies claim they've lost millions of dollars because of how the state is being perceived.
According to ...Travel recovery watch: International travel and spending up says Department of Commerce
Sep 8th, 2010 at 9:00AM: Last May, 3.6 million non-stop air passengers left the United States, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce. Who cares? Well, the travel industry does, as this indicates an 8 percent year-over-year increase and the fifth month to show a gain since December 2009. The top outbound markets were Europe, the Caribbean, Asia and Mexico. Air travel was up for the Caribbean, Asia and Mexico, with ...Pre-nuptial last rites get fun, expensive
Jul 25th, 2010 at 10:00AM: Bachelor parties used to be so simple. A bunch of guys would cram into a limo, get wasted and let the sounds of Motley Crue fill their ears while some nice young lady works her way through college a dollar bill at a time. Eventually, you'd go home and wake up sans cash, stomach contents and a few brain cells. I'm not sure what bachelorette parties involved, but I suspect there are many ...Brit travel abroad plunged: blame the business travelers
Jul 16th, 2010 at 1:00PM: The homes in Britain must be incredibly cozy – because nobody left them. Travel from the UK fell to its lowest levels since the 1970s, thanks to the hangover from the September 2008 financial crisis. The number of people crossing a border dropped 15 percent year-over-year, with only 58.6 million visits abroad taking place.
As usual, the business traveler is stuck with the blame for this. ...Travel missing among fastest growing Facebook pages
Jul 13th, 2010 at 2:00PM: What happened to the hotels, resorts and destinations? These naturals for social media didn't make the cut on All Facebook's list of the fastest growing Facebook pages. Media and celebrities dominated the list, which consists of Facebook pages not on All Facebook's leaderboard, but even there, there isn't a travel-related site until #37, the destination- and company-agnostic "I need a vacation!!!" ...U.S. travel abroad slips, spending plummets
Jul 3rd, 2010 at 2:00PM:
The number of travelers leaving the United States fell 3 percent from 2008 to 2008. According to the latest data from the U.S. Office of Travel and Tourism Industries, 61.5 million people comprised the outbound market in 2009. Travel Mexico was off 4 percent year over year, with Canada falling 7 percent. Overseas destinations – i.e., everywhere else – sustained a decline of 2 percent. ...More Americans pay up to get out
Jun 16th, 2010 at 2:00PM: The outbound non-stop air passenger market grew 6 percent from March 2009 to March 2010, reflecting a 3 percent gain for the first quarter year-over-year. An estimated 3.3 million people hopped flights from the United States in March this year, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce, with the total reaching 8.6 million for the first three months.
Air travel to all international markets ...Foreign travelers to U.S. dropped more than $30bn in first quarter
Jun 5th, 2010 at 12:00PM:
Travel spending bounced higher March, even though the bar was set pretty low. Foreign visitors spent an estimated $10.8 billion on travel to and tourism-related activities in the United States that month. That's an increase of nearly $1.1 billion – or 11 percent – over March 2010. So, travel exports grew for the second month in a row, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce.
...Asia compensates for rest of world in air travel decline
May 26th, 2010 at 2:00PM: From February 2009 to February 2010, outbound non-stop air travel from the United States remained flat, a seemingly promising sign in a travel market that's been brutalized by global economic conditions. Take a look under the covers, however, and you can see that, for some destinations, we aren't completely out of trouble yet.
According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, flights from the ...Foreign travel spending in U.S. up for first time in 15 months
May 11th, 2010 at 8:00AM:
International visitor spending in the United States is finally on the rise! Last February, travelers from overseas spent $10.4 billion on travel and travel-related purchases, an increase of almost $180 million from February 2009, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce. This was the first increase in more than 15 months.
The money wasn't spent on travel itself, however. Passenger fare ...Travel industry loses $100 billion
May 2nd, 2010 at 9:00AM: If 2008 was bad for the travel business in the United States, 2009 was worse. With 54.9 million people coming into the country, international visitation was off 5 percent. And, those who came spent far less. Visitors from abroad dropped only $121 billion last year, a 15 percent decline that cost our economy $21 billion. This is the worst year-over-year drop in spending in history, according to the ...January visits to U.S. offer glimmer of hope
Apr 8th, 2010 at 3:00PM: The rush of data from the U.S. Department of Commerce continues. In January 2010, 3.4 million international visitors came to the United States, an increase of 10 percent from January 2009. This is the fourth month in a row that international visitation ticked higher. But, this surge in arrivals hasn't been enough to lift spending, as the cash put out by visitors from outside the country fell 3 ...Visitor spending in U.S. drops for 15th consecutive month
Apr 6th, 2010 at 3:30PM:
International visitor spending is still heading in the wrong direction. In January, travelers coming to the United States from abroad spent only $10.3 billion, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce, a decline of 3 percent from January 2009. In hard cash, that's a drop of $310 million.
Travel receipts amounted to $8.1 billion in January – that's money spent on travel and ...Travel to U.S. off 5 percent in 2009
Mar 27th, 2010 at 3:00PM: The numbers are finally in: international visitation to the United States reached 54.9 million last year, down 5 percent from 2008. The top markets, as usual, were Canada and Mexico, according to a statement from the U.S. Department of Commerce, both of which posted year-over-year declines. South America, Oceana and Asia, meanwhile, put up the strongest growth in travel to the United States in the ...Travel from Japan to U.S. posts double-digit drop
Feb 26th, 2010 at 8:00AM: There aren't as many Japanese tourists walking the streets of the United States as there were a year ago. The latest data from the U.S. Department of Commerce, which covers the third quarter of 2009, puts Japanese travel to the United States down 10 percent to 15 percent on average relative to the same quarter in 2008, and the situation is forecasted to be grim for the fourth quarter results, as ...
