on Aug 19th, 2007Booking A Family Reunion Online No Screaming Please
It’s bad enough trying to get four people to agree on a restaurant: imagine picking a spot for a family reunion and having to book forty or fifty rooms, airline reservations, and car rentals. When you toss in each one’s amenity preferences, you may as well bag the vacation and hit the road solo.
Fact: “According to the research firm PhoCusWright, groups of leisure travelers ranging from 5 to 19 people spent $15.3 billion on hotels, air fares and car rentals in 2005; that figure is expected to rise 23.5 percent, to $18.9 billion, in 2008. Over the same period, the online portion is projected to climb 82.1 percent, to $7.1 billion.”
How is this mission accomplished? Groople and GroupAbout are two online travel agencies that specialize in group bookings. So the next time you find yourself even contemplating a family reunion, don’t sweat the logistics. The only problem: who pays!
Reservations for 38, With an Online Travel Planner