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« Previous Story | The Industry Report Home Page | Next Story » The Holiday Travelers: Bless Their Little HeartsBy Craig Altschul  Here's a significant statistic. Pleasure and leisure travel remains relatively unchanged during the holiday period. Visiting friends and family is the single biggest reason Americans travel at this time. Travelers who begin trips during the holiday periods are younger than travelers during the rest of the year. The percentage of male travelers (54 percent) is lower than during the rest of the year. A survey of 400 American Express travel agents listed Vail/Eagle (7th), Denver International Airport (9th), and Salt Lake City (10th) among the Top Ten holiday destinations booked. That doesn't mean all or even most visitors to those airports were headed for the ski lifts, but certainly many did. Los Angeles International was first, followed by Fort Lauderdale, Kahului, Maui; New York (JFK and Newark), Miami, West Palm Beach, and Orlando. No obvious ski region made the Top Ten on an international level. « Previous Story | The Industry Report Home Page | Next Story » |
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