- 43% of Americans plan on taking more than one vacation this summer, while over 71% of Americans plan on taking at least one summer vacation this year.
- 69% of Americans get paid time off from their employer while on summer vacation.
- 12% of Americans taking a summer vacation will be using Airbnb to book their lodging.
- Marriott and Best Western are the top two hotel choices.
- Orlando, home to Disney World, is the top destination, followed in turn by New York City (#2), Las Vegas (#3) and Los Angeles (#4)
- 7% of Americans are looking forward to traveling ALONE this summer.
Timothy Hentschel is co-founder and CEO of HotelPlanner and Meetings.com, the world’s largest online group travel provider. He has served in this role since September 2003.
In 2003, Hentschel and his business partner John Prince – software engineer and current COO of HotelPlanner – decided to pursue the creation of HotelPlanner. They pioneered the online group travel space, becoming a mainstay for group event planners and hotel partners alike.
Today, HotelPlanner provides their group travel technology expertise to over 4,000,000 group event planners with over $7 billion in group hotel revenues passing through the HotelPlannerRFP system worldwide