family travel habits and trends
PolyU Study Reveals Motivation for Family Vacations With Young Children
January 2, 2019
Families with young children have rather different motivations for going on holiday than families with older children, according to the findings of a study by Dr Mimi Li, Dr Dan Wang and Ms Wenqing Xu of the School of Hotel and Tourism Management (SHTM) at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and a co-researcher. Having analysed online travel reviews and blogs, the researchers found that parents believe "travelling as a family contributes positively to family bonding and interaction" and that providing young children with new experiences and lasting memories is the most important part of a successful trip. Tourism promoters should thus ...
“Are We There Yet?” Expedia Study Examines the Trials and Triumphs of Family Travel Today
Expedia.com | September 29, 2015
Three-quarters of American Parents Have Received "Annoying" Unsolicited Parenting Advice From Strangers While Traveling; 3% of Parents Who Travel Have Accidentally Misplaced a Child BELLEVUE, Wash., Sept. 29, 2015 -- Expedia.com®, one of the world's largest full service online travel sites1, today released the results of a survey of American parents examining the joys and perils of family travel. The study examines the issues parents face when planning family vacations, the difficulties that can arise while traveling, and why travel is such an important feature of their family lives. The study was commissioned by Expe...
What is the Value of Each Additional Child that is Traveling with a Hotel Guest?
Ryan Solutions | September 29, 2014
Families are important to a good chunk of resort destinations. Children are a big piece of this formula as each additional traveler brings increased revenues. But how big is that increase? It was on this premise that we tried to answer a simple question: How valuable is each child that travels with a resort guest? Here's what we're seeing. The Data To find our answer we looked at mountain resort reservation data for 15 resorts across the last two years. We grouped reservations by the number of children and found the increase in revenue for each child-count compared to traveling with no children. Right off the bat it's clear that every a...
