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« Previous Story | The Industry Report Home Page | Next Story » December 27, 2007 The Holiday Travelers: Bless Their Little Hearts About half of holiday travelers make same-day trips without spending a night away, says the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTW). Long-distance travelers who make overnight trips during the Christmas/New Year's holiday spend nearly four nights away. Most holiday travel is domestic. Just three percent of long-distance travel is international.
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December 14, 2007 Rumor Central: Intrawest's Eastern Resorts Not On Block, Company Refocuses Strategy
Chief among the more persistent rumors was that the company would divest itself of all or some of its Eastern operations and focus on its Western destinations. Intrawest is involved with resorts and/or villages at Stratton Mt., Vt.; Mountain Creek, N.J.; Snowshoe, W. Va.; Blue Mountain, Ontario; and Tremblant, Quebec, in the east; Copper, Winter Park, and Steamboat in Colorado; Mammoth and Squaw Valley in Calif.; and Whistler-Blackcomb, Panorama, and Canadian Mountain Holidays heli-skiing in B.C. Andy Wirth, Intrawest vice president of sales and marketing, recently debunked the sell-off rumors and explained the company's new direction to The Industry Report's Shannon Luthy. He attributed the genesis of the rumors possibly to the realignment of the company's real estate division. He said that the restructuring and reorganization has put more control in the hands of managers of the individual resorts.
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Euro SkiTravel Trends: From Russia To Bulgaria
Thorne tanslates into ski terms by noting that Europe is "actually more united than the U.S., with hundreds of the continent's 4,000 ski hills linked together by lifts and common tickets. A dozen or more operate across international borders, so you can generally ski over (or even ride a six-pack lift from Italy's Cervinia to Switzerland's Zermatt) without a passport. The Industry Report asked Thorne to look into the trends in the Euro ski travel market and any impact that can be expected here in the colonies. He told us that the big four alpine countries - Austria, France, Italy, and Switzerland - remain relatively constant, while other areas rise and fall to some extent on the whim of international travelers.
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Luxury Travel Trends For 2008 Tip Toward Concierges, Family
Lifestyle trends of the rich, if not necessarily famous, were outlined recently by Karen Weiner Escalera of Travel Industry News. Escalera says that luxury travelers no longer can be defined by traditional demographics, but rather by their buying behavior, georgraphy, interests, and what she calls "connoisseurship" (people with discriminating tastes).
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Local Burgers Are King In VermontForget about the Whopper or the Big Mac. You have a real treat awaiting you at Bolton Valley, Jay Peak, Okemo, and Stowe in the Green Mountain State. The Vermont Agency of Agriculture and the state's cattle ranchers have teamed up to serve skiers and riders the Ski Vermont Burger at those resorts.No, they aren't served with a toping of Grade A maple syrup, but these patties come from local cattle that eat large helpings of grass. That's probably better for you than California lettuce anyway. Vermont is famous for its syrup, cheese, and wood products, of course, but there are about 1,000 beef producers in the state with cattle "herds" numbering from two to 2,000. They want you to consume your share of it before, say, someone in New Mexico gets to indulge.
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