Turkey Trot to Cranberry Crawl: A Third of U.S. Population Traveling for Thanksgiving
November 20 2012 - 2:00PM
Marketwired
A new survey by TripAdvisor shows where Americans plan to be for
Thanksgiving this year -- on the road or in the air. How are they
getting where they are going? Thirty-eight percent will be
squeezing into airplanes while 58 percent will take their chances
with the road, according to the latest from Travel-Intel.
Similarly, other surveys show that more Americans will be
traveling for Thanksgiving rather than Christmas this year,
possibly because the cost for travel over the November holiday is
less than the cost for traveling during Christmas.
Travel-Intel, a division of Tours.com, monitors the travel
industry with weekly newsletters on trends, news and updates about
the travel industry sent to a permission-based database of more
than 100,000 travel agents in the U.S. and Canada.
Travel-Intel's latest issue, November 15, also features insights
on how various regions of the world are positioning themselves for
tourism in an incredibly shrinking universe and how the travel
people purchase will have more to do with interactive television
than any other medium.
Also of note in this issue of Travel-Intel: Nicaragua. The once
beleaguered Central American country is opening its first luxury
boutique hotel on the scenic Emerald Coast and preparing to get in
the game of welcoming travelers and jet-setters with a line-up of
new products and places. Mukul Resort & Spa opens in February
as part of the Kurtz-Ahlers collection.
Finally, Travel-Intel checks out tours that follow the footsteps
of Alexander the Great through Greece and Turkey led by scholars of
the antiquities with Peter Sommer Travels. It also profiles what is
to be the world's tallest hotel to some and the tower of doom to
others in North Korea's latest venture to open next year.
For those looking for what may be the most brag-worthy vacation
in Washington D.C., Travel-Intel features the details of the
ultimate inauguration package. The $100,000 four-day hotel package
happens at the Fairmont Georgetown and includes a full secret
service entourage so any family can feel like the First Family.
Although Travel-Intel is direct-mailed, current features and
archives can be viewed at http://www.travel-intel.com.
"We cover travel in all its colors, from the news of the day to
the quirks of the day," says Lark Ellen Gould, content director for
Travel-Intel and Tours.com. "Travel-Intel comes out weekly now to
keep both those who sell travel and those who are looking to travel
up on current trends and deals with an informative and entertaining
read."
Travel-Intel brings in first-hand stories from all over the
globe, reporting from international conferences and destinations
and talking to the brand managers at the helm of the industry.
Gould, a veteran travel journalist who has been covering the
travel industry for more than 20 years, puts her incisive
perspective into the weekly publication, with features and news
updates on the 1st and 15th of each month. These issues are
complemented by the Travel-Intel "packages" publication during the
between weeks that detail great deals to be found worldwide at
hotels and resort locations, all sent to more than 100,000 travel
agent subscribers in the U.S. and Canada, before posting on
Tours.com.
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