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StumbleReport: Las Vegas No. 2 in summer travel behind Orlando
Tuesday, March 2, 2010 | 12:38 p.m.
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Las Vegas remains one of the top destinations for summer travel, although it ranks just behind Orlando, according to the American Society of Travel Agents.
For the eighth year in a row, Orlando and Las Vegas took the top spots in ASTA's summer travel survey, the organization announced this week. Orlando came out on top with 17.7 percent of booked travel, and Las Vegas maintained the second spot with 16.2 percent.
Other cities rounding out the top 10 were San Francisco, Miami, Los Angeles, New York City, San Diego, Honolulu, Seattle and Washington, D.C.
Florida was the top state destination for the 2010 summer season, accounting for 24.5 percent of all responses. Nevada drew the second-largest number of responses, a 16.3 percent share with almost all of the travel to Las Vegas. California, New York and Hawaii rounded out the top five states for summer travel.
Orlando has been the top summer travel destination since 2001, according to ASTA.
The data were collected from a representative sample of ASTA member travel agency owners and managers. ASTA is the world’s largest association of travel professionals.
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Las Vegas is disneyland for adults
Orlando is disneyland for kids
It's nice to see small pieces of positive information as we move forward through this terrible economy. Great news!
Vegas is great in summer for the hot dry weather, especially at night when you can put the top down and it's still 85 degrees!
Don't read this report the wrong way. Las Vegas can be No. 2 in summer travel, but the number of tourists traveling here can still be way down. How is this possible? Simple, if the total number of tourists everywhere are way down (which they are, because of the economy), then the number of tourists to the No. 2 location will also be way down.
Exactly travel will still be way down , it really doesn't mean much most people i know are staying closer to home
legalize P & P . pot and prostitution, we'll beat floridah then.
Legalized pot & prostitution will sure attract a lot of the riff raff, ( no money ) but you can kiss the convention business good bye
Orlando is family friendly las vegas not
perry161492 :
Vegas was never intended to be a family destination. That was a pipe dream of Jan Jones..
Travel will be way down at both, because both destinations are probably in the top 4 as far as fleecing tourists. Disney may have been a few years ahead of Harrah$ in screwing people, but they've lost the lead.
try to visit orlando when NASA has a launch scheduled; the Cape is an hour drive away. vegas is strictly hard core.