After a sharp drop last year, more Americans are expected to travel for the 2009 Thanksgiving holiday, although travel by air will decline. That’s how the play-it-straight AP played the just-released AAA Thanksgiving forecast.
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I’ve been tracking travel trends since 1988. Every year at about this time, the news is flush with polls, predictions and prognostications for the upcoming summer travel season. So let’s examine this week’s AP-Gfk poll that produced gloomy headlines such as, Fewer Americans Vacationing This Summer. Really?
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Here’s some bad news for hotels — and good news for hotel guests. A new study predicts the domestic hotel industry is in the initial stages of “the deepest and longest recessions” in modern history and will suffer its fifth-largest annual decline in a key revenue measure since 1930. Look for some unbelievable lodging bargains in 2009.
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