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Tags: indicators, labour-shortage, technological-tools

In the travel industry, the most challenging aspect of staff planning is adjusting the number of available workers to meet tourism demand, which fluctuates widely, depending on the time of year. Managers must therefore be able to predict this demand and use the information to determine the number of employees needed. Cornell University recently examined [...]

Tags: baby-boomers, children, families, promotion, segmentation-strategies, travel-behavior

A 2003 survey by Yesawich, Pepperdine, Brown & Russell (YPB&R) found that one-third of grandparents have travelled with their grandchildren in the last twelve months. In the United States, more than 15% of travel includes children with grandparents. About 21% of this intergenerational travel does not include the children’s parents. Travelling with the family unit [...]

Tags: families

More and more children are traveling, with parents, grandparents, on vacations, cruises, study trips, sports excursions, and accompanying Mom or Dad on a business or convention trip. According to the Travel Industry Association (TIA), more than 32 million business trips in 1998 included children, a 250 percent rise in 10 years. And that’s just in [...]