While Black Friday and Cyber Monday are chock-full of tempting travel and flight discounts, Travel Deal Tuesday or Travel Tuesday, as it’s become known, has actually become one of the best days of the year to score a travel deal, according to the flight booking site and app Hopper.
After analyzing pricing data from the past decade, Hopper found that the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, aka Travel Tuesday, which falls on November 28 this year, has the highest volume of deals during the postholiday sales week, a promotional period that runs from Black Friday (the Friday after Thanksgiving) through the following week (also known as Cyber Week).
Last year, Hopper saw more flights discounted on Travel Tuesday than on Black Friday and Cyber Monday combined—and it is predicting the same price drops this year. The site estimates that travel companies will be offering up to 80 percent off on trips to destinations that will include Hawai‘i, Orlando, Phoenix, and Las Vegas. More than 120 hotels, 30 tourism boards, and several airlines have already committed to listing discounts on November 28, Hopper reports.
So why the increase in flight deals? Hayley Berg, an economist at Hopper, explained in a statement that demand for travel is actually pretty low at the end of November and early December, when most people have already booked their holiday travel but haven’t yet started booking much for the coming year. Travel companies try to entice them to do so by rolling out attractive deals.
The company is predicting that flights from several airlines will be discounted this year, including Aer Lingus, Air New Zealand, Fiji Airways, French Bee, and Singapore Airlines.
Hopper is forecasting that the destinations most likely to be on sale will include the Bahamas, Bali, Las Vegas, London, Miami, Paris, and Tokyo.
Travelers should also expect to see major savings on hotels. In fact, some Travel Tuesday deals have already begun to roll out. They include Virgin Hotels, which is offering 30 percent off on hotel bookings made between now and the end of the year. And for bookings made on Travel Tuesday (November 28), Virgin Hotels will donate 5 percent of revenue from all direct bookings on that day to Feeding America and Feeding Britain to help fight hunger and food insecurity.
Virgin Voyages, Richard Branson’s cheeky adults-only cruise line, is also offering up to 30 percent off on sailings booked by the end of November.
Oceania Cruises, known for its foodie-driven sailings, is discounting cabins by up to $5,400 for bookings made by December 5, 2023, for more than 100 itineraries in 2024.
Hyatt is offering 20 percent off stays booked by December 5, 2023, for travel that takes place by April 30, 2024, at participating Hyatt
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