Young people are traveling more, staying away for longer periods of time and spending more money, a new report indicates. In 2012, $217 billion of the $1.088 trillion tourism spend worldwide came from young travelers, an increase that vastly outstripped that of other international travelers, according to a new study of youth and student travel released by Amsterdam-based World Youth Student and Educational Travel Confederation . Young travelers now represent 20 per cent of international tourism, making the group an important economic force. The WYSE Travel Confederation called the report the largest and most comprehensive survey ever undertaken for the youth travel sector. The study, released in September, updated research initially conducted in 2002 and later in 2007, and looked at why, how and where young people travel and included survey responses from more than 34,000 young travelers from 137 countries.
Other winners of their respective categories were: Closest to Pin Female Jill Johansen, Travel by Jill & Company; Closest to Pin Male Joe Kennedy, Kirkwood Travel; Longest Drive Female Ilanta Robbins, YTB Travel Network; Longest Drive Male Justin Dunn, Beach Bum Vacation; Putting Contest Patrick Romano, Trip Around the Sun; Best Dressed Team Noli Tablada, The Travel Bee; Michael Dalao, Gulliver's Travel; and Luke Majewski and Ronda Rivett from Unique Vacations, Inc. Most Honest Team Score Paula Mullins-Worster, First Tee Travel & Promotions; Kelly Klett, Ocean Summit Travel; Kathleen Lawson, Vacation, Cruise & Yacht Co; and Barrie Braem, Vacation, Cruise & Yacht Co. Runners Up Team Yoruba Amador, Dawn Schell, William Snyder, Stacie Small, all representing American Express Travel.
Overall, trips to France had a significant positive effect on art prices6.8 percentthough the effect was far stronger before 1913. In the post-World War II era, a visit to France was even a drain on productivity. Travel to Germany was extremely beneficial21 percentthrough this was driven mainly by two sequential strong sub-periods from 1914 to 1938, coinciding with the Bauhaus era. And so much for finding inspiration in Florence of Venice. Hellmanzik writes that Italy never offers positive returns to travel despite being frequently visited. Trips undertaken for political reasons had the greatest effect, perhaps indicating that artists work improves when theyre freed from government repression or that collectors have a taste for the work of foreign dissidents.
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