Passengers wait in security lines at Miami International Airport after a storm resulted in delays. “While things have improved since early summer, airline cancellations are still going to be a factor for fall travel,” said Eric Jones, co-founder of The Vacationer, an online travel guide. Airline tickets, while cheaper than this summer, are still higher than they were before the pandemic.Īnd don’t expect the cancellations and delays that infuriated travelers in recent months to stop anytime soon. Cruise deals are still plentiful, but hotel prices are stubbornly expensive. How much will you spend if you travel this fall? It depends. Others are paying to clean up beaches in Barcelona or help restore coral reefs in the Caribbean, vacations crafted as “nature positive tourism.” Some are willing to splurge on flights to Italy and Turks and Caicos and excursions like ATV tours of the Mojave Desert in Nevada. Many in the travel industry are expecting a busy fall, as the summer vacation mind-set extends into the autumn.
Passengers sit in a packed plane flying from Charlotte, N.C., to Washington, D.C., earlier this year. “They’re still going to travel even knowing that they’re going to spend more than the year before.” “Travel is not going to be one of those things that they pull back on,” Mr. Still, more than 60 percent of Americans said they plan to travel this fall, compared with 54 percent of respondents last year, according to TripAdvisor, the travel site, which surveyed 2,700 would-be travelers across six countries about their plans this season.Īnd 66 percent of those respondents said that they planned to spend more money traveling this fall than they did last year, said Brian Hoyt, a spokesman for TripAdvisor. Delayed vacations, conventions and weddings have led to booked resorts and hotels, creating a sort of seasonal drift that has forced travelers to pay summer prices for fall trips. And inflation has forced many people to cut back on appliances and new clothes. Here’s what they can expect this season.įlying has been maddeningly unpredictable. After a haywire summer of flight cancellations and delays, travelers remain eager to roam, returning to familiar hot spots like New York, Europe and the Caribbean.
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