USA Tourist Companies Are Oriented Towards Group and Family Vacation
More and more people prefer independent journeys.
Therefore the market of ready tourist packages favors to those tourist companies that can make their customers interesting group offers.
This issue was discussed at one of the seminars within the London exhibition "World Travel Market".
These customers are usually presented by families.
Combinations of these groups may be extremely different, up to a common holiday of all relatives, including grandparents, cousins, their children, nephews and nieces.
The most widely spread group of family travelers in the USA includes grandparents and their grandchildren.
According to the American statistics, 66% of children aged from 7 to 16 like traveling with their relatives.
If the children are very small, the most popular tourist offers are the ones that take into account availability of the special child's food, entertainment parks and qualified nannies.
Besides, the price for the offer shall be attractive - with significant discounts for children.
According to Sheryl Hudak, the head of the biggest American tourist agency "ASTA", the best variant of a family holiday is a sea voyage where each holiday-maker shall find an occupation for his taste.
Another popular type of family holiday in the USA is a wheeled camping.
However, big companies that wish to go for a well-thought journey are not only families with children.
Interest communities appear more and more often.
Women go on holidays with their girlfriends and want to get everything at once: beaches, spa-procedures, shopping, excursions through towns and romantic adventures.
For the last 6 years the USA has witnessed the boom of tourist agencies specializing exclusively in female tourism.
Male companies most often consist of ex school or university mates or players of amateur sports team.
Male vacation has already received its own name - Mancation.
During their vacation men do not plan to seize the immense.
Their major requirement to the tourist agency is arrangement of all organizational issues for a big group of holiday-makers.
And of course - corporate travel that is in the recent times more and more popular, when the companies offer their employees some holiday trips as a bonus or simply a group business-trip that should be also organized and lodged.
Therefore the market of ready tourist packages favors to those tourist companies that can make their customers interesting group offers.
This issue was discussed at one of the seminars within the London exhibition "World Travel Market".
These customers are usually presented by families.
Combinations of these groups may be extremely different, up to a common holiday of all relatives, including grandparents, cousins, their children, nephews and nieces.
The most widely spread group of family travelers in the USA includes grandparents and their grandchildren.
According to the American statistics, 66% of children aged from 7 to 16 like traveling with their relatives.
If the children are very small, the most popular tourist offers are the ones that take into account availability of the special child's food, entertainment parks and qualified nannies.
Besides, the price for the offer shall be attractive - with significant discounts for children.
According to Sheryl Hudak, the head of the biggest American tourist agency "ASTA", the best variant of a family holiday is a sea voyage where each holiday-maker shall find an occupation for his taste.
Another popular type of family holiday in the USA is a wheeled camping.
However, big companies that wish to go for a well-thought journey are not only families with children.
Interest communities appear more and more often.
Women go on holidays with their girlfriends and want to get everything at once: beaches, spa-procedures, shopping, excursions through towns and romantic adventures.
For the last 6 years the USA has witnessed the boom of tourist agencies specializing exclusively in female tourism.
Male companies most often consist of ex school or university mates or players of amateur sports team.
Male vacation has already received its own name - Mancation.
During their vacation men do not plan to seize the immense.
Their major requirement to the tourist agency is arrangement of all organizational issues for a big group of holiday-makers.
And of course - corporate travel that is in the recent times more and more popular, when the companies offer their employees some holiday trips as a bonus or simply a group business-trip that should be also organized and lodged.