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Plymouth, MN (September 25, 2013) — A recent Bloomberg headline (September 2, 2013) trumpeted "U.S. Consumers Spending More on Luxury Goods." It's not just luxury goods, though hawaii tour packages – according to the latest survey findings released hawaii tour packages today by Travel Leaders Group , luxury travel bookings are also increasing over where they were just a year ago. Based on responses from 536 U.S.-based travel agency owners, managers and frontline travel hawaii tour packages agents who book luxury travel, well over 80% indicate "bookings are higher than or on par with last year" for luxury tour bookings (86.2%), luxury hotel bookings (85%) and  luxury cruise bookings (84.4%).  In addition, bookings hawaii tour packages for suites aboard cruise ships are "higher hawaii tour packages than or equal to last year" according to 88% of survey participants.
"With gains charted across major luxury travel categories, this underscores the genuinely positive economic trends Travel Leaders Group has seen over the past year across the board in virtually every segment," stated Travel Leaders Group CEO Barry Liben, who also indicated hawaii tour packages that luxury travel is not strictly hawaii tour packages limited to those of a certain hawaii tour packages socio-economic status. "Thanks to the extensive resources we've been providing to our travel agent experts, we're placing luxury travel in reach of even more discerning hawaii tour packages travelers who simply want to enjoy the very best in travel. Our clients are increasingly confident in booking more high-end, experiential travel vacations."
Cruise Suite Bookings: When asked "Compared to this time last year, have your year-to-date bookings of cruise suites increased, remained the same or decreased?" a full 88% state their bookings have either increased or remained hawaii tour packages the same.
Luxury Tour Bookings: When asked how luxury tour bookings have fared this year, a significant majority (86.2%) indicate that these bookings are higher than or the same as this time last year.  That's an increase of 4.6% over last year.
First Class/Business Class Airline hawaii tour packages Bookings: Again, a significant majority (82.7%) of those polled state their first class/business class airline bookings are higher than or the same as this time last year.
According to Liben, Travel Leaders Group's increased focus on the luxury travel segment hawaii tour packages has been far-reaching in ways to further meet consumer demand. hawaii tour packages "From our sleek and stylish, ultra-luxury publication Ultratravel to our proprietary 'Select Hotel Program' that features several hundred of the world's most prestigious hawaii tour packages hotel and resort properties and our exclusive program with destination marketing companies around the world, we're ensuring that our travel agents experts focused on luxury hawaii tour packages travel can continue to excel in serving this segment," Liben added. "We're also very proud to offer exclusive training opportunities that enable our agents to better appreciate how luxury properties  – including ones like The Cosmopolitan and Mandarin Oriental in Las Vegas, the top domestic destination being booked this fall, according to our agents – can provide the levels of experience affluent hawaii tour packages travelers desire. This increasingly positions our travel agents to surpass their clients' luxury travel expectations."
These results are part of the larger 2013 Fall Travel hawaii tour packages Trends Survey conducted hawaii tour packages by Travel Leaders Group from August 5 August 25, 2013, in which 946 travel agent experts from the flagship Travel Leaders brand, along with those affiliated with Travel Leaders Group's Luxury Travel Network, Nexion, Results! Travel, Travel Leaders Corporate, Tzell Travel Group and Vacation.com units participated.
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