News for the Hospitality Executive |
Kansas
City, Mo. (March 8, 2013) –Americans’ attitudes towards travel
are now more
positive than the benchmark score recorded just prior to the Great
Recession
according to the latest travelhorizons™
survey of 2,300 active travelers conducted by marketing services firm
MMGY
Global. This milestone augurs well for the continued growth of the
travel
industry during the forthcoming summer travel season.
The Traveler Sentiment Index™ (TSI), tracked every calendar quarter since March 2007, is a derivative of six factors that measure Americans’ attitudes towards travel and serves as a predictor of travel behavior during the coming six months. While the overall TSI has been declining since last April, February marked the first time the TSI surpassed the benchmark score of 100 established in pre-recession March 2007. All six components of the TSI revealed gains in February 2013, with the overall index increasing 10 points in February 2013 (100.8) compared to October 2012 (90.4). The perceived “affordability of travel” powered the score forward, having grown from 102.6 in October 2012 to 114.5 in February 2013. The six TSI factors include interest in travel, time for travel, personal finances available for travel, affordability of travel, quality of travel services and safety of travel.
travelhorizons™ is a quarterly survey of Americans’ travel intentions viewed through the lens of emerging economic, social and political developments. This iteration of the nationally representative survey of 2,243 pre-qualified adults was conducted from February 5 – 11, 2013. Statistical estimates are subject to an error interval of +/- 3 percent at the 95 percent level of confidence. MMGY Global is a $150 million integrated global marketing firm with more than 35 years of experience in the travel, hospitality and entertainment industries. For more information, visit www.mmgyglobal.com. |
Contact: AMANDA DRAKE Senior Account Executive MMGY Global 727 420 8395 mobile 407 838 1829 direct 407 875 1111 main 407 875 1115 fax facebook.com/mmgyglobal twitter.com/mmgyglobal |
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