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Two Key Trends for Travel Industry: Travelers Spend less Money and Research Online More

November 11th, 2009

The biggest theme for those trips still on for 2009 was spending less money and researching online more—two factors that are probably connected, since respondents thought Web research was the single best way to save on travel.

Ways that US Internet Users Are Reducing the Amount of Money Spent on Leisure Travel, September 2009 (% of respondents)

Money-saving attitudes, unsurprisingly, have an effect on what kinds of ads are most likely to reach consumers. Asked which online travel advertisements they were most interested in, large majorities of respondents wanted coupons on big-ticket travel items: airfare and hotels.

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