U.S. households in the highest quintile of income spent an average of $3,718 on travel expenditures in 2008, nine times…

Employment in the leisure and hospitality industry has been steadily increasing since the 1940s. As a percentage of total private…

In 2008, only 3% of household expenditures in the U.S. were travel related expenditures, equivalent to $1,415 spent per household.…

According to 2009 lodging industry data from the Census, 55.6% of lodging establishments (hotels, motels, resorts, etc.) in the U.S.…