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Auto Travel

• Primary means of transportation used by leisure visitors (76%) who traveled for leisure purposes between August 2008 and July 2009.

• The percentage of leisure visitors traveling by auto varies by income, generation and other demographic characteristics.

(Source: travelhorizonsTM, July 2009)


http://www.ustravel.org/research/domestic-research/travelhorizons



Air Travel

• Air is the secondary means of transportation used by leisure visitors who traveled for leisure purposes. (Source: travelhorizonsTM, July 2009)





Air Travel

• About 42 percent of U.S. adults reported traveling by air for leisure trips taken between August 2008 and July 2009.

• The percentage of air travelers increases to 48 percent among U.S. adults who traveled for business purposes in the past year.

(Source: travelhorizonsTM, July 2009)





Air Travel Hassles

• A June 2008 study by the U.S. Travel Association revealed a deep frustration among air travelers that caused them to avoid an estimated 41 million trips over the past 12 months at a cost of more than $26 billion to the U.S. economy.

• The effect of avoided trips cost airlines more than $9 billion in revenue; hotels nearly $6 billion and restaurants more than $3 billion. Federal, state and local governments lost more than $4 billion in tax revenue because of reduced spending by travelers. (Source: Air Travel Survey, 2008)


Airline Travel

• Currently a tax rate of 7.5% (Federal Excise Tax) plus a per passenger segment fee (currently $3.60 per domestic segment) is imposed on the amount paid for transportation of persons .

• A segment is one takeoff and one landing.


Airline Travel

The domestic segment fee does not apply to any domestic segment beginning or ending at a rural airport. A rural airport is an airport which has fewer than 100,000 commercial passengers per year, is not located within seventy‐five miles of another airport which is not a rural airport and is receiving essential air service subsidies.


Airline Travel

The international travel facilities tax is imposed at a current rate of $16.10 per passenger for any amount paid for international taxable transportation which begins or ends in the United States.

No federal excise tax.


Cruise Ships

Based on 2009 results and fourth quarter estimates, forecasting a record 13,445, 000 passengers cruised in 2009. • An increase of 440,000 guests over 2008

• 10.29 million originating in North America

• 3.4% annual passenger growth for 2009

• Demand continues to outstrip supply, even in the harshest economic environments.


Cruise Ships

In 2009, fourteen new ships debuted, from AMA Waterways, Avalon Waterways, Carnival, Celebrity, Costa, MSC Cruises, Royal Caribbean International, Seabourn, Silversea Cruises and Uniworld

Guest capacities ranging from 82 to 5,400 passengers, sailed the world’s waters for the first time.


Cruise Ships

Caribbean - The dominant cruise destination,Accounting for 37.02% of all itineraries in 2009

Despite the decrease in capacity, passenger numbers have continued to increase for the Caribbean to record numbers.


Cruise Ships

Today’s ships: onboard features and a world of innovation, including:

surf pools planetariumson-deck LED movie screens golf simulatorswater parks demonstration kitchensself-leveling billiard tables in-suite Jacuzzismulti-room villas w/private pools ice-skating rinksrock-climbing walls bungee trampolines

Today’s new ships also offer facilities to accommodate family members of all generations traveling together.More than 1.6 million children under the age of 18 sailed with their families in 2009.

The average length of cruises is nearly 7 days (7.2 days).

Cruise Ships

Fastest-growing category (industry) in the leisure travel market.

The industry forecasts 14.3 million passengers in 2010, a 6.3% increase over

2009.

Since 1980, the industry has experienced an average annual passenger growth

rate of approximately 7.4% per annum.

Cruise Ships

• 30+ North American embarkation ports provide consumers:

conveniencecost savingsvalue

• Cruise ships are within driving distance of 75% of North American vacationers.

• Customers can avoid air travel, lowering the cost of travel.

• The new home ports have introduced leisure cruising to a wider customer base.


Cruise Ships

• Cruiser target market is adults 25 years or older with household earnings of $40,000+.

• This segment represents 43% of the total US population.

• Estimated that only 19.9% of the total US population has cruised and 9.9% have done so within the last three years.


Cruise Ships

Cruisers spend approximately $1,770 per person per week for their cruise.


Rail Travel

The majority of rail travel occurred in two daily peaks.

36% of journeys started between 6:30 am and 10:00 am.

36% started between 4 pm and 8 pm.

Rail Travel

Commuting to and from work or education accounted for the biggest share of all daily rail journeys (63%).

13% of travel was for business.

24% was for leisure.


Rail Travel

National Train Day May 7th 2011

• 142 years of connecting travelers coast to coast

• commemorates the day the first trans-continental railroad was created


Rail Travel

• Amtrak is America’s Railroad, the nation’s intercity passenger rail provider and high-speed rail operator.

• A record 28.7 million passengers traveled on Amtrak in FY 2010. • 300+ daily trains • speeds up to 150 mph (241 kph)• connects 46 states, District of Columbia

and three Canadian Provinces • Amtrak operates trains in partnership with

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Bus/Coach Travel

Intercity bus, like Greyhound, is the safest mode of transportation over cars, trucks, trains, planes and other commercial vehicles,

according to the U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of

Transportation Statistics.


Bus/Coach Travel

The Greyhound fleet consists of about 1,250 buses with an average age of 7.2 years.

One Greyhound bus takes an average of 34 cars off the road and achieves 184 passenger miles per gallon of fuel.


Bus/Coach Travel

• Greyhound uses approximately 90 company-operated bus terminals and 850 agency-operated terminals or sales agencies.

• Including all stops, Greyhound serves more than 1,700 destinations in the United States.

Bus/Coach Travel

1. New York, New York2. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania3. Los Angeles, California4. Atlantic City, New Jersey5. Richmond, Virginia6. Washington D.C.7. Dallas, Texas8. Atlanta, Georgia9. Nashville, Tennessee10.Chicago, Illinois

Top 10 busiest

terminals based on

passenger volume in

2008


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