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While the U.S. economy showed clear signs of recovery in 2012, there were enough mixed signals to make vacation decisions difficult for many Americans. Through a longitudinal analysis, PhoCusWright's U.S. Consumer Travel Report Fifth Edition examines traveler behavior along each step of the travel planning process - from the media travelers rely on to make destination and product decisions, to the channels they use to book and share their trip experiences. Key metrics include frequency and duration of trips, travel expenditure and travel component purchases, and travel intentions for the coming year.
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PhoCusWright has consistently chronicled the evolution of online travel, technology and innovation. Since 2008, The Travel Innovation Summit@The PhoCusWright Conference has showcased well over 100 startups and travel industry innovators. This Spotlight examines more than 500 startups founded and funded since 2005, tracking the companies, categories and regions that have attracted the most attention (and capital) during this period.
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Japan ceded its leadership of the Asia Pacific travel market to China in 2012, and it will remain the regional runner-up for the foreseeable future. But as the country makes slow, steady progress toward recovery from its losses during the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, the unique characteristics of its travel market - partly mature, partly developing - will continue to attract attention from global online travel agencies and hoteliers.
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PhoCusWright's U.K. Online Travel Overview Eighth Edition provides data, analysis and insight into the U.K. travel industry, and projects future performance through 2014. The report covers U.K. travel market dynamics, and contains detailed information on key segments, including air, hotel, car rental, rail, tour operators and online travel agencies.
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PhoCusWright's Spanish Online Travel Overview Eighth Edition provides data, analysis and insight into the Spanish travel industry, and projects future performance through 2014. The report covers Spanish travel market dynamics, and contains detailed information on key segments, including air, hotel, car rental, rail and online travel agencies
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PhoCusWright's German Online Travel Overview Eighth Edition provides data, analysis and insight into the German travel industry, and projects future performance through 2014. The report covers German travel market dynamics, and contains detailed information on key segments, including air, hotel, car rental, rail, tour operators and online travel agencies.
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PhoCusWright's Italian Online Travel Overview Eighth Edition provides data, analysis and insight into the Italian travel industry, and projects future performance through 2014. The report covers Italian travel market dynamics, and contains detailed information on key segments, including air, hotel, car rental, rail, tour operators and online travel agencies
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In 2011, Europe's total and online markets continued their recovery from the recession and enjoyed healthy overall growth. Despite this success, however, slowed growth is expected in the next several years as the debt crisis nips at the economy's heels. PhoCusWright's European Online Travel Overview Eighth Edition provides comprehensive analysis, sizing and forecasts of the region's total and online leisure and unmanaged business travel markets, breaking them down by segment and channel and giving special attention to the six major markets: France, Germany, Italy, Scandinavia, Spain and the U.K.
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The Benelux region – comprising Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg – is frequently viewed as a homogenous geographical area rather than separate countries with unique travel-specific characteristics and trends. This Spotlight examines the online and total travel markets in this small but dynamic region, identifying key similarities and important differences between the individual country markets it includes.
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Asia Pacific's bustling economies have enjoyed striking growth in travel demand over the past several years. Airlines and hotels are benefiting from growing business and leisure travel demand, and online travel agencies - both local and global - continue to outperform the overall market. PhoCusWright's Asia Pacific Online Travel Overview Fifth Edition provides comprehensive sizing, analysis and forecasting for the region's 13 travel markets, with special emphasis on its five major markets: China, India, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.
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