Clem Bason is the president of Hotwire.com, the discount travel Web site. I asked him about the outlook for bargains in the second half of the summer, and to address some of the consumer complaints about so-called “opaque” travel sites.
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Travelocity’s Roaming Gnome needs no introduction. This summer, everyone’s favorite lawn ornament is embarking on what he calls the Summer of Possibilities tour to promote the season’s travel bargains. The gnome’s social media friends vote on his next destination, and away he goes. I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to interview the gnome on this occasion.
When it comes to travel, does anyone know what’s going to happen this summer? A lot of people claim to. Actually, three organizations unleashed surveys on an unsuspecting public within a 48-hour period recently, each offering a slightly different, and at times, contradictory summer travel preview.
There’s got to be a better way to handle all of the negativity of summer travel than voodoo dolls, recreational drugs and firearms. So I asked a few experts to tell me how they’d cope with the travelin’ blues.
Oh, the terrible things we come home to from vacation. While everyone else seems obsessed with how we will — or won’t — spend our summer, does anyone care what happens when it’s over?
It’s just the kind of pick-me-up news we needed to get the summer travel season started. Two new surveys — one released yesterday and one scheduled to be released tomorrow — suggest the state of travel has gone from bad to worse.
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