The Travel Detective
How to Get the Best Service and the Best Deals from Airlines, Hotels, Cruise Ships, and Car Rental Agencies
Excerpt
Most of us love to travel. That's the good news.
The bad news: We hate the process of travel.
We've been abused. And after each trip, we tell ourselves we'll never do it
again.
And yet, we can't wait to do it all over again. And we do.
To many people, travel remains a voyage-or a flight or an Interstate trip-of
discovery. But to most of us, travel remains a ritual of reassurance. Where
there's a whim ... there's a way. And even though we hate the process, we
continue to travel.
In 1999, more than 1.3 billion people traveled by air. The average American
traveler is 44 years old. Of all American adult travelers, 49 percent are men,
64 percent are married, and 48 percent have children.
We travel to escape, or to explore, or to rest. Travel is, for many of us, an
exercise in renewal, or a test of our limits. And some of us travel, simply,
because we CAN.
And we DO. In a recent American Express study of 200 developi ... read full excerpt from The Travel Detective ebook
