Mar 26th, 2010 at 2:32PM: If you spend enough time traveling, you'll start seeing people that qualify as "Four-Percenters" -- individuals who took 3+ foreign trips in the past 3 years AND 3+ domestic trips in the past 12 months; they represent only about four percent of the US population. We call them "Four-Percenters," because they take to the air or the highways more often than the other 96% of their fellow Americans. ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Travel trends: Are you a "Four-Percenter" when it comes to travel?
Mar 26th, 2010 at 2:32PM: If you spend enough time traveling, you'll start seeing people that qualify as "Four-Percenters" -- individuals who took 3+ foreign trips in the past 3 years AND 3+ domestic trips in the past 12 months; they represent only about four percent of the US population. We call them "Four-Percenters," because they take to the air or the highways more often than the other 96% of their fellow Americans. ...'Tis the season for 2010 travel predictions
Dec 29th, 2009 at 2:30PM: As the year comes to a close, it seems everyone is offering up their predictions for 2010 travel trends. Which destinations will be the new hot spots? Will the cost of airfare rise or fall? Will people travel or won't they? As with every year, some predictions will be spot on. Others will just seem like the same ideas from last year dressed up with new names.
Rick Seany, CEO of FareCompare, ...Record influx of visitors to U.S. in 2008
Mar 26th, 2009 at 1:00PM: Last year, 58 million international visitors came to the United States, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce. That's an increase of nearly 4 percent from 2007. To sweeten it up a bit, 13 of the top 25 arrivals markets saw new records set. In the last month of the year, nearly 4 million people came here from abroad – down 7 percent. The fourth quarter was down 6 percent ...Cruise line trends to look out for
Dec 22nd, 2008 at 5:30PM: There are some trends in the cruise industry that might make you pleased or disgruntled, depending on if the trends tip in your favor.
Non-smokers may feel more pleased to find out that one growing trend is to restrict smoking to fewer and fewer places on a ship. Smokers, of course, may not be thrilled.
Another trend is for bigger ships. Royal Caribbean's Independence of the Seas is the biggest of ...Debauchery tourism: travel for partying, sex and drugs
Dec 5th, 2007 at 2:30PM: "There is no future! Why save money? Why worry about traditional morality!?", the anything goes attitude when on vacation seems to be the latest travel-trend amongst western 25-34 year-olds, according to the 2007 World Travel Market's annual Global Trends report. A wild spin off the nudist, lifestyle and hedonist resorts concept, the travel industry has tagged this as "debaucherism", and as long ...Where do most Americans go on holiday?
Nov 4th, 2007 at 2:00PM: The Guardian 2007 Travel Awards gave us an idea of British travel trends, so I thought it would be interesting to see some American ones. Compiled by the US Office of Travel and Tourism Industries, the top 10 countries Americans visited the most in 2006 are: 1)Mexico 2)Canada 3)UK -- gives Americans "the feeling that they're going somewhere different, but also that they're home." 4)France ...
