Neil Freiman
speaker
19,544 appearances
109 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 11 Sep
Neil Freiman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I won the pre-show Coin Toss, Tails Never Fails, so I get to go first.
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And my stock of the week is piecing out of work in the fall.
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Going on a trip in September, October, and even November is surging in popularity, creating a trend known as Falcations.
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A new study from the
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Travel network Virtuoso found that fall bookings for luxury travel and experiences are up nearly 60% compared to last year.
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In a separate summer travel survey by Deloitte, the share of major trips taking place after Labor Day increased to 20% this year from 12% four years ago.
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As Misty Bells, VP of Virtuoso, put it: the shoulder season is no longer really a shoulder season.
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It's becoming a peak season unto itself.
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Shoulder season is a travel industry's term for essentially the spring and fall, those in-between times that bridge a particular destination's busiest period with its most quiet.
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But what we're seeing now is that the shoulder concept is going extinct as more people go on vacation in the fall months.
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What explains this?
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One reason is that many vacation hotspots have become exactly that too hot, particularly in southern Europe, where summer heat waves make visiting the Acropolis or the Duomo not particularly.
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Particularly pleasant.
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Another factor is the metaphorical hot.
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These popular European countries are simply too busy in June, July, August.
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So people are staying local those months, then venturing abroad post-Labor Day, anticipating thinner crowds.
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So if you can roll your eyes at another at yet another cringy travel industry portmanteau, Falcations, but it does point to a very significant shift.
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Yeah, it reminds me of this this other trend called phenomenon chasing, where you just go for cool things and it's shorter trips.
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I mean, we should say this is a big thing for the travel industry because typically it was a very smooth curve.
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It would be like the holidays are up, and then in the shoulder season in the spring would go down, and then the summer would go up and then the fall would go down again.
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