More people in the mountain states are expected to travel this Memorial Day weekend than last year. An estimated 2.7 million will load up the car and take off for a long weekend. They won’t go too far. They are expected to travel shorter distances – about 677 miles compared to last year’s Memorial Day [...] [...]
There is a way to breeze past the long lines at Rome’s Colosseum and get right in without a wait. Travel aficionado Rick Steves will be in Colorado Springs March 7 to share his secrets on the best way to beat the crowds at some of the world’s busiest tourist destinations in a presentation hosted [...] [...]
This Thanksgiving, 42.5 million people in the United States are expected to hit the road to visit family and friends — the highest number of holiday travelers since the start of the recession. Travel tracker AAA says that 4 percent more Americans than last year will journey at least 50 miles from home, with about [...] [...]
Business travelers don’t like to take off their shoes at the airport. This is one thing nearly 30 percent of business travel agents wish they could change in airport security, according to Travel Leaders Fall Travel Trend Survey released today. About 450 travel owners, managers and frontline travel agents were surveyed in August to find [...] [...]
The USA Pro Cycling Challenge is expected to draw 1 million spectators to Colorado Springs when it gets under way Aug 22. And that is likely to cause traffic snarls. Here’s a list of roads and highways to avoid between noon and 4:30 p.m. that day, as well as suggested alternate routes. U.S. 24 and [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 11,2011
Tags: gas, Travel
With the price of gas above $3.50 a gallon in all but one state, there are signs that Americans are cutting back on driving, reversing a steady increase in demand for fuel as the economy improves. Gas sales have fallen for five straight weeks, the first time that has happened since November, according to MasterCard [...] [...]
Colorado lawmakers are considering a measure that would restrict the travel of state-chartered agencies. Rep. Sal Pace says the bill is aimed at the workers’ compensation insurer Pinnacol Assurance, which spent thousands of dollars on a golf outing for executives. But other agencies that use taxpayer dollars are complaining that the Pueblo Democrat’s proposed rules [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: February 1,2011
Tags: Tourism, Travel
The destination club company Exclusive Resorts says it’s seeing signs of improvement in the luxury travel market. It said Tuesday its sales of membership upgrades and new memberships for access to its luxury vacation properties totaled $66 million in 2010, which is up more than 50 percent from 2009. In 2010, with effects of the [...] [...]
AAA Colorado projects the number of travelers in the Mountain region this Memorial Day weekend will increase 7.6 percent over 2009 with about 2.5 million residents taking a trip away from home. Nationwide, 32.1 million Americans will travel over the Memorial Day weekend, a 5.4 percent increase over last year when 30.5 million Americans traveled [...] [...]
by Rebecca Tonn Published: May 15,2009
Tags: Travel
As a group, Americans live up to the stereotype of being culturally ignorant. Only 20 percent of Americans have passports, almost half cannot locate the Pacific Ocean on a map and the United States is one of only a few countries in which someone can be considered well-educated without speaking a foreign language, said Windham [...] [...]
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