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Approved in February 2023 the Tourism Strategy identifies the Council's vision, key priorities for growth and action plan for tourism delivery in High Peak over the next five years.

During this time High Peak will establish itself as a coherent, connected destination within the iconic brand of the Peak District.

The Strategy has been developed with engagement from a wide range of public, private and third sector stakeholders to set out a refreshed vision for driving sustainable, innovative, resilient and inclusive sector recovery and growth. It will help the Council to capture new markets, using the area's cultural and natural assets to fuel growth and capitalise on the staycations and people's desire to escape to "the great outdoors".

The four key priorities identified for growth in the strategy are:

Towns & Villages  - creating destination hubs and reasons to linger.

Cycling & Walking  - developing routes, trails, packages and events.

Creators & Makers  - supporting events, workshops, courses and opportunities to buy.

Accommodation  - extending the range and type.

Monitoring and evaluating progress of the Strategy will be carried out in two ways:

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Is Travel Finally Back? New Report Reveals Record Tourism Rebound

See how travel is making a continued comeback since taking a dip during the pandemic.

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The pandemic and subsequent recovery battered the global travel industry. At first, cratering demand led to mass layoffs among cruise lines , airlines , hotel groups and other enterprises dependent on travel. Once health risks receded , there was a sudden increase in demand, catching many travel businesses off guard. Supply chain kinks, soaring energy costs, rampant delays and understaffing led to months of traveler misery that has only recently eased up. 

Despite the rocky road, travelers apparently will not be deterred from their trips, according to newly released data charting the surprising strength of the travel industry at the start of summer. 

Travel exceeds pre-pandemic high

Travel industry news site Skift recently released their June 2023 Travel Health Index report, which reveals global travel ful ly rebounded and further exceeded pre-pandemic strength compared to just a few months ago.

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The Travel Health Index measures the travel industry’s performance using 84 travel indicators with data from 22 partners. As of June 2023, the global index sat at 104 , an increase of 4% over the 100 peak pre-pandemic rating from April 2019. It also marks a 1% increase from the May 2023 index rating of 103.

At its lowest point during the early days of the pandemic, the Travel Health Index dipped to 20 in April 2020, a sign travel performance had sunk to 20% of April 2019 levels. Three years later, travel has fully rebounded and continually set new records across all global regions.

Referencing the strength of the U.S. travel market, Skift research analyst Saniya Zanpure tells Kiplinger they do not see travel performance slowing down in the U.S. "Since airlines, vacation rentals, and hotels in the U.S. outperformed 2019 performance levels, the travel index for the country in June 2023 is 8 percentage points above June 2019," she said.

Global travel gains aren't equal

The biggest winner of the global travel recovery is Latin America, the region that's proved the most resilient through the pandemic. By early 2022, Mexico’s impressive travel rebound accelerated, and the larger region began to exceed pre-pandemic performance. Latin America's travel index performance for June clocks in at a globe-leading 110. All other regions (and 17 out of 22 countries tracked in the report) had  recovered or exceeded their pre-pandemic travel levels, albeit with less impressive marks.

The biggest outliers among the developed tourist destinations are Russia (67.9) and Hong Kong (69.7), whose continually lagging performance is dragging down the global index – and their respective regions. Russia's deteriorated tourism picture is likely a product of the ongoing war in Ukraine , resulting in extensive "do not travel" advisories and departing businesses . Meanwhile, factors including exceedingly harsh pandemic restrictions and democratic backsliding can be counted toward Hong Kong's travel woes.

The global car rental industry also diverged from other travel sector industries , receding to 108 in June from a record April mark of 112. Only North America increased car rental performance month over month. Still, despite the measurable dip since April, global car rental performance remains 8 percentage points above pre-pandemic levels.

How travelers can save in a pricey recovery

Travel is hotter than ever, as millions fully exit their pandemic hesitance to embrace tourism and business travel. NerdWallet's Travel Price Index reports that the overall cost of travel has grown 14% since the June 2019 pre-pandemic travel season. 

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Use the following tips from Kiplinger contributor Becca van Sambeck to save money while planning a vacation despite budget-busting price increases: 

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The Holiday Travel Rush Is Now the Holiday Travel Blob

There was something curious about the US Transportation Security Administration’s data on passenger traffic at airports last month. The Sunday after Thanksgiving was, as usual, very busy, with 2.6 million people screened at security checkpoints. That’s the most on any single day since the pandemic began, and evidence that many people are back to traveling again. But other historical patterns didn’t hold. The Friday  before Turkey Day, almost a week ahead of the holiday, was busier than the equivalent day in 2019 and almost as busy as the day before the holiday—traditionally the peak travel day of the year. People are traveling again, but not in the ways they used to.

Airlines had predicted that Thanksgiving travel would be weird. Between pent-up travel demand, sky-high ticket prices, and flexible work-from-home schedules, some people chose to fly at different times than in previous years. And carriers are forecasting similar pattern-breaking travel during the December holidays, stretching from now through Hanukkah, Christmas, and Kwanzaa, and past New Year’s Day. “The bookings are a little bit different this year,” Andrew Nocella, United Airlines’ executive vice president and chief commercial officer, said in October during a call with investors. “They’re more spread out across multiple days than they were in the past.”

In other words, the great holiday rush has become the great holiday mush, more a blob of intensified travel than a burst of large spikes. A survey conducted by consultants Deloitte found that American travelers are adding an average of six days to their seasonal trips this year because of flexible work arrangements. With remote work seemingly here to stay, the way some people travel during the holidays has perhaps changed forever. They can now skip the most hectic and fraught days of the travel season—and perhaps save a little money doing so.

A holiday scramble that is more dispersed, with lower peaks, is also Christmas music to airlines’ ears. “We can become much more efficient because demand is regularly high at all periods,” Robert Isom, the CEO of American Airlines, said at an  event hosted by the travel news site Skift in November. That means airlines and hotels, still short of pilots and cleaners and attendants, may not need to turn over planes and rooms as quickly as during a traditional holiday crunch. And less intense competition between passengers for seats or rooms on specific days might mean companies can take more bookings overall. “This is going to help us operationally,” Ed Bastian, the CEO of United Airlines, said as he explained the phenomenon to investors this fall. 

Less happily, the changes could mean fewer breaks for travel workers. “It makes the holidays a bit harder,” Sara Nelson, the president of 50,000-member labor union the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, said in a statement. “We used to plan our own holidays and work schedules around typical travel patterns. Now, flights are full all the time. This makes it hard to get to work or utilize the benefits that come with our jobs.”

Why is the holiday travel blob manifesting now? It’s the collision of three trends in the way people are traveling and working in the wake of pandemic-era lockdowns and restrictions.

One is the growth in remote or hybrid work. Fourteen percent of US full-time employees are fully remote, according to a  recent survey , and 29 percent work outside the office a few days a week. Two, many people have a pandemic hangover that expresses itself not through an urge to lie down, as most hangovers do, but in a desire to get out, whether to visit Mom or see the world. And three, supply constraints—in airplane seats on flights still operating curtailed schedules, car rentals, and hotel rooms—are driving up prices and pushing some people to consider traveling on non-peak days. “If people find a better deal to travel on a Monday or a Tuesday or a Wednesday and they have the flexibility to do that, they will,” says Vik Krishnan, a partner with McKinsey who consults clients in the aviation, travel, and aerospace industries. 

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The Deloitte survey found that almost one in four workers who intended to travel over the holiday period said they would work during a  trip. These people were generally higher income and younger, between 18 and 34. Traveling families tend to be less flexible, in part because school breaks have not changed.

The shifts in holiday travel are part of a larger movement that’s allowed some people able to work remotely to take more trips throughout the year. When your office can be anywhere, you can start a weekend trip on Thursday night and log in from the beach on Friday. The industry calls this—and I’m only going to type this out once— bleisure , a smooshing of travel for business with travel for leisure. Matthew Klein, the chief commercial officer of Southwest Airlines, said the carrier has seen “shorter trips and more trips” partially fill the mid-week dip, traditionally the doldrums of the week for airlines, Tuesday and Wednesday. 

Behind the scenes at airlines, work is under way to understand and exploit the new patterns of travel. Some of the travel industry shibboleths they have disrupted are literally built into the  algorithms that companies use to make schedules and set fares . Travel and hospitality businesses have long used data about bookings to understand whether a traveler is on a business or leisure trip and change pricing accordingly.

A company that uses that hard-won knowledge in the right way can determine how much someone is willing to pay for a ticket, and extract the maximum. Leisure travelers spending their own money are generally more cost-conscious, while business travelers tend to be willing to spend more of their company’s money on flexibility and are more brand loyal, sometimes in pursuit of elite status.

Vasu Raja, the chief commercial officer at American Airlines, says that from the company’s perspective, data on travelers who mix business and leisure travel so far looks good. People on “blended trips” are spending more than typical leisure travelers, he  told a travel conference last month . They’re more likely to have the airline’s credit card and enroll in its loyalty program.

In years past, airlines have used the “Saturday night stay” rule to determine what to charge customers—offering only those who book a Saturday night at a destination the lowest round-trip fares. Raja says it’s now obsolete. “The world is changing. There’s no Saturday night stays anymore,” he said. Freed from the shackles of the office, the work-from-home set might be helping to remake the patterns of not just the holidays, but the travel economy.

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Traveling This Fall? Expect Cheaper Prices, ‘Seasonal Drift’ and, Yes, Chaos

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After a haywire summer of flight cancellations and delays, travelers remain eager to roam, returning to familiar hot spots like New York, Europe and the Caribbean. Here’s what they can expect this season.

Flying has been maddeningly unpredictable . Airline and hotel prices remain high. And inflation has forced many people to cut back on appliances and new clothes. Delayed vacations, conventions and weddings have led to booked resorts and hotels, creating a sort of seasonal drift that has forced travelers to pay summer prices for fall trips.

Still, more than 60 percent of Americans said they plan to travel this fall, compared with 54 percent of respondents last year, according to TripAdvisor , the travel site, which surveyed 2,700 would-be travelers across six countries about their plans this season.

And 66 percent of those respondents said that they planned to spend more money traveling this fall than they did last year, said Brian Hoyt, a spokesman for TripAdvisor. “Travel is not going to be one of those things that they pull back on,” Mr. Hoyt said. “They’re still going to travel even knowing that they’re going to spend more than the year before.”

Some are willing to splurge on flights to Italy and Turks and Caicos and excursions like ATV tours of the Mojave Desert in Nevada . Others are paying to clean up beaches in Barcelona or help restore coral reefs in the Caribbean , vacations crafted as “nature positive tourism.”

How much will you spend if you travel this fall? It depends. Cruise deals are still plentiful, but hotel prices are stubbornly expensive. Airline tickets, while cheaper than this summer, are still higher than they were before the pandemic.

And don’t expect the cancellations and delays that infuriated travelers in recent months to stop anytime soon. “While things have improved since early summer, airline cancellations are still going to be a factor for fall travel,” said Eric Jones, co-founder of The Vacationer , an online travel guide.

What else can you expect this fall?

Airlines: Better, but by how much?

Cancellations. Lost luggage. Flight delays and endless waits for customer service. Even the official in charge of regulating civilian aviation in the United States hasn’t avoided the chaos. “Airlines need to step up their game,” said Pete Buttigieg , the U.S. transportation secretary, who faced multiple cancellations and delays this summer. Still, he’s optimistic that flying will improve this fall. “I do think that a better situation is within reach,” he said.

Airline executives, labor unions and industry analysts agree: Fall travel should be better than summer travel. They do not agree on how much better. But most concur that the issues that must be addressed, include: not enough staff, too many cancellations and delays, problems with refunds and terrible customer service.

On the question of whether airlines have enough staff, Airlines for America, a trade organization representing seven major U.S. carriers, says yes, they do. “This summer, carriers have proactively adjusted their staffing models to ensure they are adequately staffed for each flight,” a spokeswoman wrote in an email.

Union leaders agree that staffing is adequate, but only on “blue sky days,” the term Gary Peterson, the international vice president of the Transport Workers Union of America, which represents more than 70,000 airline workers, uses for those 24-hour periods when nature works in airlines’ favor. “But when weather hits, they don’t have enough reserves,” he said.

“I believe airlines have taken steps to make things better, but it’s fragile,” said Sara Nelson, the international president of the Association of Flight Attendants-C. W. A., the largest flight attendants’ union. Even before the pandemic, staffing for roles ranging from pilot to wheelchair handler was stretched thin, she said. In order to minimize the ripple effect when something goes wrong, it’s critical to maintain staffing above the Federal Aviation Administration minimum, she added, something that has not happened for years.

A second concern: Have airlines stopped selling more flights than they can handle? Or will they continue with the pandemic trend of canceling flights that they should have never scheduled? Several analysts were optimistic that the airlines had learned from their mistakes. American Airlines, for example, recently slashed 16 percent of its November flights, according to Cirium, a travel analytics company. John Grant, a senior analyst for OAG, a travel data company, noted that cancellation rates were far lower in July and August than earlier in the year. Still, the delay rate has recently hovered around 23 percent, higher than prepandemic times or last summer, according to FlightAware, a flight-tracking company.

The third issue: Will the refund, flight change and hotel voucher process get easier? Mr. Buttigieg is pushing forward several initiatives. One involves updating a federal policy guiding flight refunds. Under the current policy, airlines are supposed to reimburse passengers for flights that have been canceled or “significantly changed.” But carriers have long exploited ambiguity around the term. The proposal, which he will revisit in November, codifies the conditions under which refunds must be paid.

Last week, the Department of Transportation launched a dashboard that Mr. Buttigieg called “a tool for transparency,” outlining the services that each airline has committed to provide when flights are altered for reasons within their control.

Some analysts said that these measures are weak, particularly in contrast with Europe, where airlines must pay travelers — on top of refunds — for certain types of cancellations. Recently, more than 30 state attorneys general blasted the Department of Transportation for failing to keep up with “escalating issues” and argued that they should take over enforcement of consumer protection laws affecting travelers. Some lawmakers have also suggested that airlines should be fined for treating passengers poorly, given the billions of dollars in government pandemic aid they’ve received.

Finally, there is the matter of customer service: Will Thanksgiving week be filled with nightmarish stories of unanswered calls to alter a flight or locate a lost bag? On this front, labor representatives and industry analysts agree: It’s unlikely to get better soon. Airlines see customer service as an area to slash, not grow, costs. — Heather Murphy

Prices: Cheaper, just not prepandemic cheap

Excepting foliage destinations and convention cities, fall has historically been a value-seeker’s season. Across the industry, many prices this year will follow the same pattern. But inflation and other pandemic-related effects mean some deals are weaker.

Consider airfare. The typical seasonal decline between summer and fall fares, according to the booking app Hopper , is 10 to 15 percent. This year it is 37 percent, falling to $238 for an average domestic round-trip ticket. But that doesn’t mean fares are cheaper, only that the difference between summer and fall fares is much greater.

“Fall 2022 looks very different, and the main reason is how high airfare got this summer,” said Hayley Berg, the lead economist at Hopper, noting that summer airfares were more than double 2019 rates.

Airlines are also maintaining capacity cuts this fall to control costs, according to Helane Becker, a research analyst with the investment banking firm Cowen. “The lowest fares I’ve seen for fall are $59 one way and there are only a few seats available at that rate, up from $39 or $49 in the past,” Ms. Becker said.

On the hotel front, travelers should expect to pay close to prepandemic rates this fall. The steady rebound of business travel is bolstering big cities and may diminish fall deals in urban areas. In the latest figures available, average daily rates nationally have climbed year-to-date to roughly $147 in July, compared with $132 in July 2019, or nearly equal to prepandemic prices when adjusted for inflation, according to the hotel benchmarking firm STR. The firm is forecasting a continued recovery for hotels, with occupancy up five points this year over last.

Popular resort destinations may be more expensive, too. Most of October remains high season at the Camden Harbour Inn in coastal Camden, Maine. But its hefty rate hike this year of more than 20 percent to an average of $688 a night in part reflects higher wages, Covid absences, and increased expenses for everything from electricity to linens.

Don’t expect any steals in vacation rentals either. AirDNA , which analyzes the short-term rental market, has average fall rates outpacing fall 2021. The average October rental domestically was recently about $258 a night compared with $243 in 2021 and $195 in 2019.

Rental car rates, however, will be better, but still much higher than they were before the pandemic. This fall, average rentals are 18 percent cheaper than in summer, according to Autoslash , a free service that monitors car rental bookings and flags them for rebooking when rates drop. But prices are still 52 percent higher for the period over 2019, thanks to fleet downsizing.

“We don’t expect rental rates to come back down to 2019 levels anytime soon, if ever,” said Jonathan Weinberg, the founder of Autoslash.

Still, fall remains a good time to ride the value of a strong dollar , trading now at parity with the euro. Among new international low-cost carriers, Norse Atlantic Airways recently started service from New York’s Kennedy International Airport to Berlin starting at $132 one way.

Generally speaking, if you don’t like rates now, don’t expect them to improve. Pandemic uncertainty — including concerns over new variants and trip cancellations — have abbreviated booking windows to often just a few weeks out, meaning rates could rise dramatically in the coming month. — Elaine Glusac

Environment: ‘Nature-positive tourism’

The popularity of ecotourism has hardly waned since the term rose to prominence a generation ago. But a new framing has emerged that puts a bigger onus on the travel industry to examine its complicated relationship with the natural world. Say hello to “nature positive tourism.”

The idea is “a long overdue reinvention of ecotourism,” said Justin Francis, who advises the British government on nature and business and serves as chief executive of Responsible Travel , a travel company based in Britain.

“Ecotourism was about ‘take only photos, leave only footprints’ — it was basically ‘leave no trace,’” said Mr. Francis, adding that the concept applied only to nature-based tourism, not to things like city breaks or cruises.

“But when we look at the problems that we as an industry create for nature, we realize that they come from all types of tourism,” he said. “It’s not just a question of a few ecolodges getting a bit more ambitious. If we’re to be nature positive, then every part of the tourism industry needs to step up.”

Scientists warn that we are in the middle of a mass extinction event. Between 1970 and 2016, the planet lost nearly 70 percent of its populations of wild mammals, fish, birds, reptiles and amphibians. Today, roughly one million species are threatened with extinction .

Tourism contributes to all the major drivers of species loss: Developers fill in marshlands to build resorts (land use change); tourists trample fragile coral reefs (overuse); cruise ships dump waste (pollution); visitors inadvertently carry the seeds of nonnative plants into nature reserves (invasive species); and flying emits greenhouse gases (climate change).

Mr. Francis said that travel companies must understand their negative impacts. But, he added, travel — perhaps more than other sectors of the economy — can do a huge amount to support nature.

Jim Sano, vice president for travel, tourism and conservation at World Wildlife Fund, noted that tourism is the biggest market-based source of funding for protected areas around the world. He described projects in Mexico, Nepal and Namibia in which WWF has worked with travel industry partners to craft tourist experiences that support wildlife protection while also generating income for residents. “It’s creating a situation where wildlife is more valuable alive than dead,” he said.

So far, more than two dozen travel companies — including Exodus Travels, Journeys With Purpose and the Adventure People, as well as the airline Virgin Atlantic — have signed a “nature positive pledge” as part of the Get Nature Positive campaign, which Mr. Francis coleads as part of his work with the British government.

Several companies offer experiences that allow guests to enjoy nature while also protecting it. Rewilding Europe Travel offers wolf-tracking tours in Italy, bison-trekking trips in Romania and other experiences that support the “rewilding” of European landscapes. Responsible Travel, Mr. Francis’ company, sells trips that allow guests to support sea turtle conservation in Greece or spearfish nonnative fish off the coast of Belize.

Shorter experiences are also an option. Barcelona-based Authenticitys , which has signed the “nature positive pledge,” offers one- to three-hour “social impact experiences” in 40 cities in Europe and Latin America. They classify about two dozen of those activities as “nature positive.”

Elena Rodríguez Blanco, the founder of the company, said they initially wondered if people would pay to pick up trash on the beach in Barcelona (as part of a stand-up paddle boarding lesson), or to clean up a canal in Amsterdam (while taking a boat tour). But many guests have enjoyed their experiences so much that they have recommended similar activities that the company could offer in their own hometowns.

“That’s actually been a big part of our growth,” Ms. Rodríguez Blanco said. “It’s really rewarding.” — Paige McClanahan

Points: More deals, more people chasing them

After a frustrating summer, travelers trying to use mileage rewards this fall may find that their points go a long way — literally. Kyle Potter, the editor at Thrifty Traveler, a travel news website, said that when cash prices go up, it’s harder to use points or miles, as they’re either more expensive or less available. The inverse, he said, is also true: When flight prices decrease, as the travel booking platform Hopper predicts will happen to domestic flights this fall, it’s easier to use points.

“The summer was really tough, whether you were paying exorbitant cash prices or trying to put some points and miles to use and getting a whole lot of errors and empty dates,” Mr. Potter said.

But snagging deals may be more difficult as demand increases. According to a recent survey from Forbes Advisor , more than a quarter of Americans said they expected to pay for at least one trip using credit card rewards this year. And there’s clearly pent-up demand to spend points earned — and saved — during the pandemic. A spring 2021 survey from the personal finance site NerdWallet found that travel rewards credit-card holders had an average of nearly 65,000 points and miles banked.

Before booking a points redemption, you have to know when and where to look. Several airlines, like JetBlue Airways, typically offer flash sales in the fall, to entice travelers in a traditionally quieter season. While the cash deals are often tempting, the sales usually extend to reservations made with points, including on international flights.

A one-way flight from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to Guayaquil, Ecuador, for instance, was priced at $100 or 4,600 TrueBlue points during the sale. TrueBlue is a revenue-based program, meaning the cost of award tickets is determined by the cash price of a ticket. After the sale, the price for that same route was $448, or 40,800 points.

Other carriers, such as Delta Air Lines and Southwest Airlines , regularly offer deals on short- and medium-haul flights. Delta’s SkyMiles are considered among the easiest to earn from its co-branded credit cards, ride-share apps, transfer partners and flights. Travelers looking for cheap, last-minute deals can find flights from New York to New Orleans, for instance, for as low as 11,000 miles round-trip.

But keep in mind that deals often come with restrictions like limited dates for your travel and what fare class you’ll be in (usually the lowest). For the New York to New Orleans flight, the low cost means you’ll get no miles for the trip or credit toward elite status, seats assigned after check-in and boarding last. A full-fare seat on the same flight costs 5,000 more miles.

To quickly find the best deals, travelers should look to fly from and arrive at a destination predominantly served by their preferred airline.

If United Airlines is your first choice, you may want to pick a United hub as your fall travel destination, such as Newark, Chicago, Washington-Dulles or San Francisco. Travelers can book award flights on partner airlines, too. In United’s case, travelers can book award tickets on Star Alliance carriers like Turkish Airlines or Lufthansa, which offers nonstop flights between the United States and Germany.

Using Air Canada’s Aeroplan program is one of the easiest ways to book flights on United Airlines, thanks to the Canadian carrier’s distance-based award chart , meaning that the number of points required to book an award is based on the distance between the origin and destination airport. Using British Airways’ Avios mileage program is one of the cheapest ways to fly short-haul domestic flights on American Airlines across the United States.

Mr. Potter recommends that travelers not tie their loyalty to an airline but to transferable points programs from credit card issuers. American Express Membership Rewards points can become, for instance, Marriott Bonvoy points, while Chase points can turn into Southwest points.

Travelers thinking ahead to winter 2022 and spring 2023 trips should start planning now, he said. “Now is this time to start coming up with a plan for how you want to get there,” Mr. Potter said, referring to travel destinations, “what points and miles you need to make that a possibility and start looking for those flights because they’re going to go fast.” — Victoria Walker

Destinations: ‘What’s old is new again’

Cities remain a go-to. So do tropical places like the Caribbean and Cancun.

In 2020, travelers avoided urban centers for beach towns and national parks, where it felt like a safer place to go, said Brian Hoyt of TripAdvisor.

But by last fall, Las Vegas, New York City, and Orlando had supplanted places like Key Largo, Key West and Atlantic City, which were the top three destinations for travelers in fall 2020, according to TripAdvisor.

The trend is continuing: Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Denver, Orlando and New York are the five most booked destinations in the United States for fall, according to Hopper, a travel booking site. For international travelers, cities like San Juan, Puerto Rico; Cancun; Mexico City; Barcelona; and Rome are in the top 10, according to Hopper.

“What’s old is new again,” Mr. Hoyt said. “High-density population centers are back in vogue.”

But lower-key vacations are still a draw. Ocean City, N.J., a beach town of about 11 miles south of Atlantic City, was the top trending U.S. destination this fall based on the number of nights booked, according to Airbnb. That’s part of a growing trend to extend summer. There has been a surge of interest from visitors who flock to the eight miles of beach in September and October, when the summer crowds leave and the town hosts events like an antique car show and a huge block party and fireworks show , said Michele Gillian, executive director of the Ocean City Regional Chamber of Commerce.

Travelers remain eager to go to Europe, where demand for flights and hotel bookings is “on par” with 2019, said Kareem George, a travel adviser and the owner of Culture Traveler, a firm specializing in luxury trips.

“Italy is the standout,” Mr. George said, “which is not a surprise because Italy always is the standout.”

London, Paris, Munich, Copenhagen and Dublin were the top cities searched by people looking to travel between Sept. 6 and Nov. 15, according to Expedia.

The Amalfi coast in southern Italy and Santorini, a whitewashed Greek island in the Aegean Sea, are so popular this fall that travelers are struggling to find accommodations, said Charles Neville, a spokesman for Jayway , a boutique travel agency that specializes in European travel.

People are so eager to tour these destinations they are willing to spend $600 to $700 a night for accommodations that may not justify that amount, he said.

Mr. Neville said he is encouraging clients to book later in the fall when the weather is still pleasant and the crowds have abated, or to consider Sicily, Croatia and lesser known islands in Greece like Paros and Naxos. “Maybe that’s a way to have your Greek island vacation dreams come true without spending stupid amounts of money,” he said.

In the Americas, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Colombia and Costa Rica are seeing more passengers book trips than they did in 2019, said Scott Keyes, founder of Scott’s Cheap Flights . The countries are easy to get to and airline tickets are generally cheap — round-trip fare from nearly anywhere in the United States to Colombia was selling for about $260 in August, he said.

“For a lot of folks, the trip they want to take as their first one back is fun, overseas, but not too far away,” Mr. Keyes said.

That sort of ease is what Silvia Sims, a retired sales manager who lives in suburban Detroit, said she and her three friends wanted when they began planning their fall trip last May. They settled on Jamaica, where Ms. Sims, 71, has traveled nearly a dozen times since the early 1980s but had not visited since April 2019.

“I’m going back to a place where I really love to visit and I feel safe,” she said. — Maria Cramer

Timing: ‘Seasonal drift’ takes hold

Budget travelers and the crowd-averse have long embraced the fall shoulder season, when airfares and lodging rates tended to drop and visitors could enjoy quieter hiking trails and fewer tourists around the Eiffel Tower.

But flexible work, climate change and high-season hassles have pushed more travelers into fall, effectively extending summer and narrowing the bargain window ahead of the winter holidays.

“I am managing hotels for the past 20 years and never seen such a rush on rooms,” said Henrik Muehle, the general manager of Flemings Mayfair in London, noting that rates are, in most cases, double 2019 prices. “Guests don’t seem bothered,” he added.

Lingering consequences of the pandemic have encouraged the shift. At Little Gem Resorts on Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., the rise of fall bookings includes a surge of postponed weddings. Social events and business gatherings have picked up at the Inn at Perry Cabin in St. Michaels, Md., where September rates remain comparable to summer, averaging $850 to $900 a night, and won’t fall substantially until November, when they start at $340.

Thanks in part to flexible work policies, business has been so good at Four Seasons Resort and Residences Jackson Hole , in Jackson, Wyo., that the resort will forego its traditional three-week fall closure this year, and offer cycling and wolf-watching trips in Yellowstone National Park. “Guests are aspiring to be here when the crowds aren’t,” said Cory Carlson, the regional director of marketing for the resort.

Seasonal drift depends on location. Vrbo , the vacation home rental agency, said fall prices still drop as much as 25 percent compared with summer in some popular beach destinations.

In these climate-changing times, planning a trip around perfect weather seems futile. At Remote Lands , which specializes in Asia, bookings in Thailand in the traditional shoulder season, August through October, are up 25 percent.

“Prepandemic, the thought of a rain shower was something that clients would avoid and would shift their desired location or dates,” said Catherine Heald, the co-founder and chief executive of Remote Lands. “Now, clients understand that with climate change there is a chance that they may have blue skies throughout the stay and are ready and willing to travel.”

Other travelers continue to prioritize space and untrammeled access to nature, readily found in fall. In southern France, Coquillade Provence Resort & Spa will stay open this year from November to January, when temperatures are often more comfortable than summer, rather than closing as usual. Management plans to offer seasonal activities like truffle hunting.

“A lot of people are trying to experience the same thing at a much lower volume and without as many people around them,” said David Arraya, the general manager of Six Senses Ibiza off the coast of Spain, where the 2021 summer peak lasted to November.

Overtourism and climate-change impacts have disrupted tourism around Yosemite National Park in Northern California. Wildfires, the need for a reservation and fewer European visitors owing, in part, to a weak euro, have depressed summer numbers this year in Mariposa County, where the park is.

“Shoulder seasons are disappearing and peak seasons are not peak any longer,” said Jonathan Farrington, the executive director of Yosemite Mariposa County Tourism Bureau . “April through November is one season and December through March is shoulder season.”

He attributes the shift in part to younger people who visited the park during the pandemic and discovered its appeal in the calmer but still comfortable months, when tourism is more sustainable.

“If you have the ability to choose when to go outside of June, July and August,” Mr. Farrington added, “it’s the responsible thing to do.” — Elaine Glusac

Family travel: Saving money and going somewhere ‘easy’

In early October, Jess Field, her 9-year-old daughter and husband will spend four nights in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, in a hotel with a balcony overlooking crashing waves. The luxury Hyatt hotel they booked goes for more than $1,000 a night, but it will not cost her anything; she will pay only the taxes on the family’s flights from Houston. This is because Ms. Field has a system for covering vacation costs with hotel and airline points, which she acquires by opening new credit cards with stellar welcome bonuses.

She is just one of many parents who will turn to points this fall. Last year, concerns about Covid were the primary reason that parents opted not to travel, according to several travel advisers. Now, as six-month-old babies are getting vaccinated, coronavirus cases are falling , restrictions are fading and inflation is driving up prices, money has become the main obstacle to booking trips, according to a study of 16,000 adults by Morning Consult , a market research company.

Ms. Field, who teaches a course on leveraging credit card offers, has found that families are eager to find creative ways to cover costs. A recent survey by Vacasa, a vacation rental site, reinforced this observation, finding that people with children were significantly more likely to have fall travel plans than people without.

“People want to travel, but they don’t have the budget and this allows them to have the best of both worlds,” Ms. Field said. In a recent week, around 180 students signed up for her Travel Hacking Mom course. This is more than she or her co-founders could recall enrolling during such a short period throughout the course’s four-year history.

Money concerns are not the only thing that has changed. Most children must now attend in-person school. This means less flexibility for travel. And yet, several travel agents said that they have noticed the pandemic has imbued parents with more of a you-only-live-once-and-it’s-OK-to-pull-my-kid-out-of-school-for-a-vacation way of thinking.

“There’s been a shift in mind-set,” said Amie O’Shaughnessy, the founder of Ciao Bambino!, a travel agency based in Sun Valley, Idaho.

As to the sorts of trips that families are planning this fall, Nadia Henry, the founder of Travel with Sparkle , an agency based in West Orange, N.J., said that interest in Europe, reunions and all-inclusive resorts continues to be strong.

Ms. Field has found that many families also crave a cruise. “Parents are tired and burned out and they want to go somewhere easy,” she said. She’s also picked up on excitement about Disney’s restarting certain fall events and allowing children to hug characters once again.

Gregg Kaminsky, a co-founder of R Family Vacations , based in Southampton, N.Y., observed that despite the passage of what opponents call “Don’t Say Gay” legislation in Florida, it’s still looking as if the state will be a popular fall destination for L.G.B.T.Q . families. One difference, he notes, is that some gay and trans parents seem to be more interested in group travel, something that reminds him of the 1990s when L.G.B.T.Q . people traveled in groups for safety.

Another influencing factor: Some parents are still working remotely. Among “high net-worth families” with small children, this has translated into interest in hiring a nanny who can hit the road at a moment’s notice, according to the Nanny Authority , a child care provider placement agency based in New York City.

As to where families stay, the pandemic seems to have pushed many parents and grandparents toward Airbnb and VRBO, said Seth Borko , a senior research analyst at Skift , a travel trade publication. Chekitan Dev, a marketing professor at Cornell University’s Nolan School of Hotel Administration, said that vacation-home competition has prompted some hotel brands, such as Hilton , to finally make it easier to book connected rooms. — Heather Murphy

Cruises: More bargains and fewer Covid restrictions

Major cruise lines like Carnival , Princess Cruises and Norwegian Cruise Line have dropped their vaccine requirements. As of Sept. 5, passengers leaving on Royal Caribbean International from the United States on certain cruises were allowed to provide their own Covid test results, instead of one from a health professional, according to the company, which has also dropped its vaccine requirements.

Lindblad Expeditions , which takes passengers to far-flung destinations like the Galápagos Islands and Antarctica, said it is keeping vaccine requirements in place but is no longer requiring booster shots.

MSC Cruises , which also dropped its vaccine requirement for residents of the United States, will no longer require tests for vaccinated passengers.

The changes came soon after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention dropped a voluntary program through which cruises reported the vaccination status of passengers and crew and regular updates about case counts.

As a result of the looser restrictions, more passengers from Europe are flying into the United States to board cruises, said Rubén A. Rodríguez, president of MSC Cruises USA. “We’ve also seen more people from the U.S. branch out and book itineraries in the Mediterranean and elsewhere, now that international travel protocols are easier to manage,” he said in a statement.

It has been a boon for the cruise industry, which experienced two years of enormous losses because of the pandemic and a slow restart in June 2021.

Jeremy Clubb, founder of Rainforest Cruises , which specializes in exotic riverboat and small ship cruises, said he expects the company will surpass its 2019 sales total by at least 20 percent. The winter is looking especially promising, with the number of bookings for cruises up 60 percent compared with the same time last year, he said.

“It is clear that many people are growing noticeably less fearful of Covid and are eager to get traveling again,” Mr. Clubb said in an email.

Don Zingale, 76, said he and his wife are planning a 45-day cruise on Oceania Cruises from Barcelona to Rome to Miami in October. Mr. Zingale, a retired university executive based in Point Richmond, Calif., said he was “very unhappy” to see the company loosen restrictions around testing and vaccines. “Letting unvaccinated people on a ship filled with older people is not the smartest thing in the world,” he said.

Still, Mr. Zingale, who estimates that he spends 100 nights on cruises a year, said the new rules would not keep him from ships, where he often enjoys luxurious amenities for “bargain prices.”“The value outweighs the risks,” he said. “It is too fun.”

Deals are likely to abound throughout the season, said Colleen McDaniel, the editor in chief of Cruise Critic , a leading cruise review site. “You can cruise the Caribbean for less than $60 a night, or the Mexican Riviera for less than $80 a night,” she said. Before the pandemic, bargains on trips like that would have been under $100 a night, she said.

The aggressive discounts began in late spring and continued into the summer, as late bookings and a glut of cruise ships created a situation where ships were less than 100 percent full.

Travelers should take advantage of deals to take cruises to areas they might not have considered before, like Portland and Bar Harbor, Maine, or Halifax and St. John in Canada, Ms. McDaniel said. They are destinations with great dining, beautiful vistas and scenic mountain trails that nevertheless “sort of slip under the radar,” she said.

The discounts may not last as restrictions ease and bookings increase, however, said Ms. McDaniel. “We’re seeing more and more people getting on board ships,” she said. “People are really, really excited to get back to sailing.” — Maria Cramer

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Inflation is affecting travel, but that doesn't mean it's slowing down

Sarah Griffith's flight to Columbus, Ohio, last summer had a dual purpose: she wanted to see her friends and watch the band Night Ranger play.

Griffith, 50, loved the rock group growing up, and has traveled around the country to see it. "(I) started going to see them and it kind of turned things around and it just kind of became my thing," she said.

But in the wake of the pandemic, she said expensive flight costs and elevated fees for concert tickets have limited her ability to see the band, which makes up a large part of her travel plans each year. She pointed to inflation as a big contributor.

In some cases, Griffith has chosen to attend shows within driving distance, or not go at all.

"It's frustrating," said Griffith, who lives in Manassas, Virginia, and works in the front office of a dental practice. "I mean, I work hard in order to be able to pay my bills, and I'm used to having money left over that I can afford to do stuff, and that money that’s left over now doesn't go as far."

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Experts say Griffith's experience is a good example of how travelers are adjusting their behaviors to account for inflation.

"Because prices are going up everywhere, people are also deliberately choosing their destination," Trivago CEO Axel Hefer told USA TODAY. "Some are choosing attractive but not as expensive destinations," like opting to stay in Pisa instead of Rome on a visit to Italy.

"These kinds of things at the margin are happening," he added.

What does inflation mean for travelers?

Prices in most segments of the economy are going up, and it's no different in the travel sector.

However, a recent study by Deloitte suggests that people aren't shying away from getting out there despite higher prices.

"We believe it’s still looking relatively positive. There’s certainly still some pressure that we’re seeing, inflation pressure or concerns," said Eileen Crowley, Deloitte's vice chair and U.S. transportation, hospitality and services attest leader. She added that people so far do not seem to be discouraged from taking trips, but the firm plans to continue tracking how higher prices affect demand throughout the year.

In the meantime, however, she said Deloitte's research suggests travelers are being more careful about what they're willing to splurge on.

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"From an airline perspective: what category of seats. Do I upgrade? Do I not upgrade?" she said. "From a lodging perspective, what type of class of lodging we’ll book ... I want lodging on the beach, but perhaps I go for a lower class of lodging that’s still on the beach rather than splurge on a place with more amenities."

For their part, on recent earnings calls, airline executives largely said that demand for tickets remains strong, and many pointed to the fact that they were reporting record profits despite flying less overall than they had in 2019 – a sure sign that ticket prices are up and the market could still bear even higher prices potentially.

Are travel deals still available this year?

According to Hefer from Trivago, prices are up pretty much everywhere, but not at the same rate in all places.

"You have to stay flexible. The more flexible you are in terms of date and destination and hotel property, the easier it is for you as a traveler to mitigate the effect," he said. "You still spend more, but you don’t spend as much more as you would have if you had booked the exact same trip.'

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As an example, Hefer noted that spring break prices in Cancun, Mexico, are up 10% on average compared to last year, while the same period in Miami is around 50% more expensive overall. So, he said, travelers who are willing to go to Cancun instead of Miami for spring break may be able to spend less than they would otherwise. 

Other advice for travelers

Hefer and Crowley both emphasized that flexibility is the key to economizing on travel during inflation.

"If travelers are thinking about ways to save money, the mode of transportation to get to your trip is something they could pivot on," Crowley said. For example, taking a family road trip instead of flying somewhere.

Traveling at non-peak times, too, can help your trip have less of an impact on your wallet.

"You can get the same experience for a fraction of the money if you are very flexible on destination, a bit flexible on accommodation experience, but, in particular, the timing," Hefer said. "My advice to your readers is stay as flexible as you can and then you can have an awesome experience and you won’t have to pay the high prices you see everywhere."

Griffith, for her part, has not seen any improvement in flight prices – at least not yet.

"I'm hoping," she said.

A year out from peak inflation, travel and leisure (mostly) cost less

It took a while, but people are just about done catching up on experiences lost during the pandemic.

While a minority of high-dollar travelers are still confronting — and paying — four-figure airfares to Paris and Tokyo, prices are finally falling across the leisure economy, the last several months of federal data show.

That’s good news for consumers, as well as economists and policymakers seeking reasons for optimism that the economy can regain its footing without sliding into a recession.

Consumer Price Index figures released Wednesday morning showed airfares down 19% in June from last year and car rental rates down 12%, for their fifth consecutive month of declines. Food away from home, which includes restaurant meals, continued to rise, but the category’s annual growth rate of 7.7% in June slowed from 8.8% in March. Ticket prices for sporting events ticked up last month, but the rise came after three straight months of declines.

“It’s the consumer getting to the end of their ‘revenge spending,’” said Skanda Amarnath, the executive director of the macroeconomic policy group Employ America.

The downtrend comes one year after inflation peaked at a four-decade high of 9.1% in June 2022, as consumers poured money into the services sector.

Early in the coronavirus pandemic, homebound consumers raced to scoop up physical goods like exercise bikes, household appliances and pajamas to work from home in, even as supply-chain bottlenecks pushed up prices and delayed deliveries. But as the economy reopened and more people ventured back out, pent-up demand shifted toward travel and leisure , driving up prices at bars, hotels and airlines that were often paying more for hard-to-find workers.

Now, with inflation slipping to 3% in June and consumer confidence hitting its highest level since January 2022, economists increasingly see signs of a return to normal.

Deutsche Bank Chief U.S. Economist Matthew Luzzetti said he still foresees a mild recession this year, expecting further pullbacks in consumer spending and bank lending. But “at the moment,” he said, “consumer spending does not look recessionary.”

Not everybody is tightening their belts in the same ways. While many have been taking shorter, cheaper trips closer to home this summer, overall travel demand remains high. A recent Bankrate survey found 63% of U.S. adults have traveled or plan to travel for leisure this year, up from 58% last year.

At the same time, the share of those citing higher prices as a top problem ticked down to 53% this year from 57% last year, possibly reflecting lower costs for gas, airline tickets and rental cars.

Some travel costs remain steep, though, and high-income vacationers are spending anyway.

Bankrate found about 85% of households making more than $100,000 a year reported leisure travel plans this year. And many of them are increasingly shifting their sights from domestic hot spots to international destinations.

Americans who are traveling abroad this year boast an average household income of nearly $110,000 , compared to less than $83,000 among U.S. travelers overall, according to the consultancy Destination Analysts. Overseas jet-setters also have more vacation time to burn and stronger financial security than the average U.S. traveler, the group found.

Strong demand for high-dollar foreign getaways is driving up prices for trips abroad. AAA said in the spring that international flight bookings were up more than 200% since last year. The flight-booking platform Hopper said in May that average airfares to Europe and Asia each jumped by more than $300 since last summer, to over $1,100 and over $1,800 per ticket, respectively.

By contrast, domestic airfare averaged just $306 a ticket, down 19% from the year before.

To accommodate the strong demand, United Airlines has said it will grow its international network at twice the rate of its domestic network this year. Delta Air Lines executives told investors in April that they expected record revenue and profitability on their international routes this summer.

The federal government’s inflation gauges mainly reflect domestic consumption, which means vacationers’ splurging overseas won’t buoy inflation readings at home.

“We don’t see it as much in the domestic data because more of that money is being used on the international side of things,” said Omair Sharif, the founder and president of Inflation Insights. In fact, Sharif said he expects domestic airfare to continue falling through the summer, even as international travel picks up.

In the meantime, consumers who are staying within the U.S. continue to have more affordable options for spending during their downtime.

Last month, Darden Restaurants, which owns the Olive Garden and Longhorn Steakhouse, reported a decline in visits from lower-income households compared to last year, along with slower alcohol sales. But both measures remain above pre-pandemic levels, hinting at a return to more normal patterns.

At the Cracker Barrel, executives recently flagged a “noticeable drop in traffic,” with Chief Financial Officer Craig Pommells telling investors on June 6, “We believe some of our more price-conscious guests may be reducing their retail purchases as a way to manage their overall spend when dining with us.”

Amusement parks have also taken a hit. The Wall Street Journal reported this week that traffic to Disney’s U.S. parks has slowed this summer, shrinking line-waiting times during Independence Day weekend to near-decade lows.

Softer but not collapsing demand is right in line with what Federal Reserve officials hope to achieve with their campaign of interest rate increases, which they paused last month .

With inflation still running hotter than the Fed’s target of 2%, the central bank is expected to again lift interest rates at the end of the month, keeping borrowing costs high for mortgages, credit cards and car loans. Consumer spending, which accounts for about 70% of total U.S. economic activity, will have to cool further to help nudge inflation to that target.

But economists and Fed officials also don’t want it to crater and lead to a “hard landing,” in which a pullback in economic activity pushes employers to lay off workers en masse. If, for example, fewer travelers buy plane tickets or dine out, employers like airlines and restaurants might drop workers to cut costs.

Jobs data released Friday showed no signs that is happening at the moment, with both industries continuing to add workers. The national unemployment rate, at 3.6%, is still hovering near 50-year lows.

Brian Cheung is a business and data correspondent for NBC News.

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As omicron peak passes, airfares surging for spring and summer travel

Fares could reach pre-pandemic levels by april as eager travelers clash with airlines struggling to fly schedules..

By Kyle Arnold

6:00 AM on Feb 1, 2022 CST

The COVID-19 era of cheap flights is swiftly coming to an end, and travel firms are seeing signs that airfares will probably reach 2019 pre-pandemic levels as soon as April.

With the worst of the omicron variant waning across the country, airlines struggling to ramp up flight schedules are set to clash with pent-up demand from travelers ready to get back into the skies and explore the world.

Airfares for travel booked in January were still about 18% below pre-pandemic levels, according to travel booking firm Hopper.com . But those prices are increasing quickly, as much as 7% a month, and price hikes on airfares probably won’t stop until schools get out for summer. That could bring the price of the average round-trip ticket up to $315 by June, 33% higher than today’s prices, according to Hopper economist Adit Damodaran.

Carriers including Fort Worth-based American Airlines and Dallas-based Southwest have been slashing schedules to keep up with their own pandemic realities. Airlines desperately need more pilots, and Southwest and American each need thousands more employees to get operations back to pre-pandemic operation levels and avoid the passenger-enraging meltdowns that plagued them last summer.

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Meanwhile, travel agents say they are busier than at any point in the past two years. While customers are price-sensitive, they are also eager to explore after two years of road trips to socially distanced domestic locations.

“Everything is more expensive, even for kids wanting to backpack through Europe,” said Jenny Westermann, a travel agent with Sanders Travel Centre in Fort Worth. “It’s not just plane tickets and hotels; it’s museums and trains, too.

“Once travelers realize that everything is going to cost more, they are accepting the increases.”

Round-trip airfare for flights out of DFW International Airport dropped as low as $264 during the summer of 2020 as airlines slashed flights and many of the world’s most popular destinations were closed to travelers because of COVID-19. A year later, average airfare was back to $313 but well below the $403 average before the pandemic, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics.

The past few months have been a whipsaw for airlines and travel firms, which have watched travel demand ebb and flow with COVID-19 variants and brief periods of travel optimism.

“A lot of travelers feel like we are in the endemic stage where they know this is something they are going to have to deal with for years,” Westermann said. “And Texans have always been more likely to travel than people in other parts of the country.”

Labor, fuel cost concerns

Demand isn’t the only reason airfares are rising. Airlines are seeing cost increases as labor and jet fuel get more expensive. A gallon of jet fuel is selling for more than $2.50 a gallon, the highest rate in more than six years, according to the Argus Daily Jet Fuel Index . That’s about 30% higher than a year ago.

Fuel and labor combine for about half the costs of a commercial airplane ticket , according to Airlines 4 America, the trade group of major U.S. airlines.

Fuel prices are rising for aircraft just like the price increases automobile drivers are experiencing. The global economy is growing quickly as businesses tool up after the pandemic, people are returning to work and oil producers are scrambling to drill for more oil after pandemic slowdowns. U.S. tensions with Russia are keeping oil prices high, too.

On top of that, oil prices tend to rise quickly in spring in the United States as refineries switch from winter heating fuel back to automotive petroleum. Oil and gas prices tend to rise the most in February but don’t usually peak until just before Labor Day.

Airlines are also facing increasing employee costs and other struggles to keep fully staffed.

Southwest Airlines said it would raise its minimum pay to $17 an hour after raising starting salaries from $13 to $15 last June.

“We just need to get the staffing levels to the point where we can operate our aircraft, operate them reliably, produce the kind of operational performance that our customers need and want and deserve, and it’s just going to take staffing to do that,” Southwest’s new CEO, Bob Jordan, said during the company’s earnings call last week. “Which is why you saw us raise our starting wages.”

Even with higher wages, airlines are struggling to get enough employees to fly the schedules they planned in 2022 as they anticipated demand returning next year.

American Airlines recently cut about 20% of its schedule for March and will probably make cuts for April and May soon. Southwest Airlines is in the process of cutting flights in April and May, after hopes that it could fly as many flights in 2022 as it did in 2019. Now Southwest leaders expect capacity to be down about 4% this year compared with 2019, with most of those cuts coming in the spring.

During the peak of the omicron surge, Southwest had 5,000 of its 54,000 employees out with COVID-19. Chief Financial Officer Tammy Romo said the company’s employees faced the same struggles as others around the country, with COVID-19 cases forcing parents to call in sick as schools and day care centers closed.

Traveler optimism

Those pressures aren’t slowing travelers, who want tickets to travel around the U.S. and abroad.

Some 81.5% of travelers say they are in a “ready-to-travel state of mind ,” according to industry research firm Destination Analysts. That’s the highest level since the pandemic began, and travel optimism is hitting the same levels it did during the all-too-brief delta variant recovery in the fall.

“Travel for February was soft, and most of the travel we are seeing is for close-in trips,” said Misty Belles, spokeswoman for travel agent network Virtuoso. “Now we are seeing people actually planning again, planning for spring break and planning for summer.“

Still, airline and travel experts say consumers are recovering faster with each COVID-19 surge. The initial wave set airlines back by a year, the delta variant by a few months and the omicron variant by a few weeks.

“As we have seen throughout the pandemic, each new variant and corresponding increasing cases is followed by a faster recovery of demand with fewer regulatory restrictions and changes in travel policies,” American Airlines’ incoming CEO, Robert Isom, said Jan. 20 .

That means the golden period for cheap flights is also shorter.

There are still deals to be found for travelers, but 2022 won’t be anything like it was in 2020 and 2021, when ticket prices hit rock bottom. People looking for extraordinary deals will have to be flexible on both location and their willingness to get on a plane right away, said Scott Keyes, founder of Scott’s Cheap Flights .

For instance, ticket prices for February travel are still low. February is traditionally a slow month before the weather warms and the spring break rush begins with students getting out of school.

Southwest and American are both selling flights to New York’s LaGuardia Airport for less than $60 each way from the Dallas area in February. Tickets to Cabo San Lucas and Puerto Vallarta can be found for less than $200 round-trip, Keyes said. There are even trips to Barcelona for around $450 in the spring.

“As we’ve seen during other times in the pandemic, you can get great deals if you are flexible,” Keyes said. “If you are paying attention and willing to get on a flight this weekend, you can get some great prices. Not everyone can do that, though.”

Related: American Airlines cuts thousands of flights in March as pandemic hopes clash with reality

Kyle Arnold . Kyle Arnold is assistant business editor The Dallas Morning News, who spent four years covering airlines, travel and the aerospace industry. He previously worked as a business journalist for the Orlando Sentinel, Tulsa World and The Monitor in McAllen. He is a University of Washington graduate.

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Travel could be a good deal this summer. Here's when plane ticket prices will peak.

Spring is springing, and according to Hopper, it’s time to start thinking about your summer vacation plans.

New data from the online booking site shows some favorable trends for travelers in the next few months, including slightly lower airfares compared with 2023 and hotel and car rental prices that are more or less flat year-over-year.

Here’s what you need to know as you prepare to book, whether you’re looking for a domestic getaway or go on an overseas adventure. It’s also not too late to take advantage of deals on some last-minute trips.

How much are spring and summer plane tickets?

According to Hopper, the best deals right now are on domestic airline tickets. Round-trip flights within the U.S. are averaging $290 in April, but prices are expected to rise in the months ahead.

Hopper’s data shows prices for domestic flights will peak between May and June at $315 on average, then will gradually fall through the summer, reaching a low of $264 on average in September.

On a call with investors discussing first-quarter earnings Wednesday, Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian said summer travel demand has been pushed forward in recent years in part because schools, especially in the South, are finishing their summer breaks earlier in the year.

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This summer also will be a good time to travel internationally; Hopper data shows fares to most destinations abroad are down compared with last year. 

“Airfare to international destinations continues to improve following two years of bloated prices due to quickly recovering demand, high fuel prices and supply constraints. Airfare to most major regions of the world has dropped compared to last year with the exception of trips to Canada,” Hayley Berg, Hopper’s chief economist, said in the report. “International fares remain higher than pre-pandemic levels to most regions, as higher fuel prices persist and airlines continue to rebuild capacity to many regions.”

How much will a hotel room for the spring and summer cost?

Hotel prices remain mostly flat compared with the same time last year. Rooms in the U.S. are averaging $206 a night; better deals are available in some trending international destinations like Osaka, Japan, and Istanbul, Turkey.

According to Hopper, Las Vegas, New York and Chicago remain popular destinations in the U.S.

Will car rental prices rise this summer?

Car rental prices also haven’t increased much since last year and average $42 a day, according to Hopper.

The report shows most travelers rent a car for about four days, and warm-weather destinations like Orlando and Los Angeles remain popular pickup points.

Zach Wichter is a travel reporter for USA TODAY based in New York. You can reach him at [email protected].

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Cuba's tourism hits record high despite economic woes and challenges

D espite the economic crisis in Cuba, the island saw an exceptional number of tourists in 2023. According to government reports, visitor numbers have reached a peak not seen since the COVID-19 pandemic began. With high hopes, Cuba anticipates an even more successful year for its tourism industry.

Cuba is making concerted efforts to promote itself as an appealing holiday destination. You can visit the Pearl of the Caribbean any time of the year, though the period from November to April is the most popular.

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Government data for 2023 reveals that more than a million international tourists visited Cuba, marking the highest number since the coronavirus pandemic began in 2020, the Havana government reported.

The tourists included Canadians, Russians, Americans, Germans, and French.

The Cibercuba portal indicates that visitors to the island have faced challenges, including deteriorating hotel sanitary conditions, growing shortages of energy, food, and medicine, and social unrest. Despite these issues, the allure of experiencing paradise draws tourists. Varadero and Havana's capital remain among the island's top destinations.

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As previously mentioned, the Cuban Minister of Tourism, Juan Carlos Garcia Granda, reported over a million tourist visits in 2023. Nonetheless, independent Cuban media have highlighted significant discrepancies in these figures, with initial announcements suggesting around three million tourists were expected throughout the year. These disparities are notably striking. However, it is generally accepted that the most accurate and reliable data comes from government sources lastly reported.

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Business travel survives the Zoom era, as leaders jump back on flights

It turns out that jet-setting on the company dime has eternal appeal. Business trips can conjure up images of fancy first-class tickets to major cities or staying at a Hilton in a small town about 20 minutes from the airport. Either way, it seems that the pandemic didn’t kill the corporate travel bug.

The brakes on business trips were first pulled when COVID-19 hit, as lockdowns and international travel restrictions were implemented. Zoom took off while planes stalled, as the video-conferencing company went from 10 million daily meeting participants in December 2019 to 300 million a few months later in April 2020.

As the lockdown lifted, some itched to vacation again (surging to the point that the term “revenge travel” was coined), but corporate travel was slow to get its feet off the ground. Its sluggish return made some question if business trips were at the end of an era. Perhaps Zoom and remote work meant that there was no longer a need to leave the house, much less the country, to really connect with others. 

“Businesses aren’t going to support nonessential travel if the work being proposed can be done virtually,” Brian Bloom, Korn Ferry’s vice president of global benefits and mobility operations, said in 2021 . And while bosses were looking to cut costs by eliminating travel, workers weren’t looking to risk their health either. In 2021, only one-quarter of those over 55 were comfortable traveling for work even after being vaccinated, according to an IBM survey of 15,000 global participants.

But years later, it seems as if corporate demand hasn’t died off, it just was dozing off for a bit. And the airlines confirmed as much. Alaska Air reported a return to pre-pandemic levels of business travel, as sales for corporate accounts soared by 22% in the first quarter. Delta and United each reported 14% increases in first-quarter revenue, with a United executive noting that the company notched nine of its top 10 corporate booking days in its history this year. That’s coming off of the rebound in 2023 , as air travel rose to 94% of 2019 levels, according to the International Air Transport Association.

Of course, that doesn’t mean that business travel isn’t still going through growing pains . A 2023 report from Deloitte found that while recovery is occurring, the trend “likely faces a limited upside” in part due to the cost of flying and sustainability mandates. 

Still, the return of corporate travel is occurring in the background of a years-long campaign to go back to pre-pandemic ways of work, as big names in tech and finance push for a fully in-person week. One of the major talking points for those that suggested back to office work was that it would create better connections , a similar talking point that crops up when it comes to the merits of traveling to meet with clients in-person. 

It seems as if the mindset is slowly gaining traction, as a 2023 study from Global Business Travel Association projected spending on business travel will surpass pre-pandemic levels of $1.4 trillion this year and balloon to nearly $1.8 trillion by 2027. After Omicron and other surges, global business travel began to find its footing again in 2022, according to the trade group.

“The headwinds that were anticipated to impact the rebound of global business travel over the past year didn’t materialize and that is good news,” Suzanne Neufang, Global Business Travel Associate’s CEO said in a statement last year to Fortune’s Chris Morris. “This latest forecast now indicates an accelerated return to pre-pandemic spending levels sooner than anticipated as well as growth ahead in the coming years.”

As the ever-looming recession remains unannounced and executives continue to extol the benefits of in-person work, the company card has started to thaw. It appears as if the floodgates, or air gates, are beginning to open up again.

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Pikes Peak Crime Stoppers: How it works

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) - Pikes Peak Area Crime Stoppers (PPACS) receives nearly 200 reports a month, but you may wonder exactly who PPACS are and what role the community plays.

They work directly with Colorado Springs residents to help solve and prevent all kinds of crime.

For example, last year, Crime Stoppers say resident reports led officers to $13,000 in stolen property and over $350,000 worth of illicit drugs.

Best of all, reports can get you paid. Crime Stoppers handed out nearly $20,000 in reward money last year alone.

Dan May from PPACS says it's a great way for neighbors or community members to report crimes that they know about and help prevent crime in their neighborhood; totally anonymously.

To report a crime individuals can either contact PPACS by phone or through Crimestop.net . The nonprofit then reports the crime to police agencies.

May says the entire process is done anonymously, adding there is a state law the says they cannot identify who the reporter is.

About 40% of reported crimes relate to narcotics or drugs cases, according to May.

However, PPACS gets tips about a wide range of crimes from animal cruelty to porch pirates to murders.

While most tips get reported within a few days of the crime happening, May says anyone can report a crime at anytime no matter when it happened.

Something unique PPACS does is give monetary rewards to crime tippers in some cases.

If the reports leads to an arrest, individuals are eligible to receive up to $1,000 in cash.

If you have information about a crime, contact Pikes Peak Crime Stoppers at (719) 634-7867.

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