Last Minute (las vegas casino hotels) Holiday Savings Is So Last Year
No commentsBy Roger Munns
In recent years booking a last minute holiday has made a lot of sense - with ever more destinations available, a flexible tourist has almost been certain of being able to grab a last minute holiday at a bargain price.
But things are changing, and a new report suggests that for those who book next year’s holiday well in advance they could be the ones who will be paying less, and with holiday companies cutting back on the number of holidays they sell due to recessionary times, last minute holiday bookings could be more expensive.
The report, by a leading consumer organisation, studied holiday prices for July and August this year, and compared the prices to the same holidays when they first went on sale last summer.
Those holidays were on average a thousand pounds (around US 1700 dollars) higher in cost for those who had waited to book last minute, compared to those who had booked a year in advance, changing the trend of the holidays market in Europe from the previous five years.
Last minute holidays, and the niche travel industry that has grown up around it as more people switched from brick and mortar travel agencies to booking holidays on the internet and becoming their own travel agent, has grown as internet usage has grown.
Before the internet was widely used the British market for example traditionally saw the highest number of bookings for a summer holiday in January and February, and while the first two months of the year are still high booking months, their importance has slowly declined in the last decade as a whole section of the population took advantage of tour operators slashing prices when their flights and accommodation weren’t full.
With a recession tour operators will be cutting the number of flights and available hotel rooms to popular holiday islands like Malta for 2009, making a bargain last minute holiday even more difficult to find than in the summer of 2008.
But times change, and after the report the equivalent of an earthquake hit the British travel industry when the country’s third largest tour operator, XL, went bust in September.
According to one Malta holidays travel site - and the majority of Malta’s tourists originate from the UK - holidaymakers could well now not have cheap prices as their number one priority, but whether the travel company they book with is still going to be in existence by the time their holiday comes around - with a resulting swing back to holidays booked last minute, not because of the prices, but the chances of their holiday company still being in business is higher.
So in the fast moving travel industry, a trend away from last minute holidays as the savings weren’t there to the same extent as in previous years could be back as quickly as it went as other considerations factor in - such as a travel company’s ability to survive a recession, and medium size travel firms could be squeezed as holidaymakers place their faith in the biggest companies, hoping that the chances of them being able to fulfil a holiday are higher.
For more on-line travel news for the island of Malta including Luqa Airport and cheap Malta flights see yourmalta.com
They also have other Malta holiday categories such as the Malta weather, a map and photograph galleries.
Having fun before your next trip
By Jakko Jakko
Travel tips
When you go on a trip, whether it is a business trip or a vacation or holiday trip you need to get hold of a few tips. First of all if it is vacation or holiday trip you want to know where you are going. You want to go to a place where you can relax on the beach, or maybe you want to go to a place where you can just stay inside your hotel room and sleep all day and not be bothered, maybe there is a chance that you want to go to a place just to do shopping. In any of these scenarios you want to find a place that suits you, so you will not go to Russia if you want to lie on the beach and take in the suns rays. You will not go to Egypt if you are looking to do shopping for designer outfits or cheap electronic equipment, and you will not go to the running of the bulls in Spain if you are looking to relax and sleep all day. These are just things that you will need to take into consideration, do you want to sleep, do you want a beach, do you want to shop and if you want to do all of these things, what is the perfect place? So a good list of travel tips is needed there.
On a business trip you do not have a choice as to where you have to go, and if your company is paying for the flight fees and the hotel chances are that you really do not have a choice as to which flight to catch, or which hotel to stay in. However, you can make a few choices of your own, like what clothes to take, what book to read on the plane, and what to pack. Also, if you find that you will have a few minutes, or any hour to spare in between meetings then you could use that time to do other things, like shopping, sleeping or relaxing on the beach. Maybe you always wanted to take in a play at the theatre in this specific city or town you are going to. If you find that you have a few hours to play with, make sure that you find a few travel tips for the city you are going to. You will look for things like what to do, where to go, what to see, and things like this. Look for things that just generally interest you. Before you leave for your flight, make sure that you have everything written down, because if our only have a few hours to spend you do not want to spend the bulk of them looking for thing to do in the city you are in. Take with you names and numbers to taxi or cab services, emergency numbers for that city, make sure that your cell phone can roam and do not forget to take your charger with.
Jack Marshall is author of this article on travel tips.
Find more information about Vegas travel guide here.
Your Source For Discount Las Vegas Hotel Travel Deals
Monday, November 10th, 2008 at 5:05 am and is filed under travel. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
