| Are you a travel site owner or looking to become | | | | Today, it's extremely common for couples to |
| one? The honeymoon tourism market should be | | | | both have demanding careers. It's become |
| one of your next targets. Why? | | | | tougher to simply leave for a couple weeks. |
| Just the U.S. honeymoon tourism market alone | | | | Electing to break from tradition and fly away right |
| does about $13 billion in business annually. And if | | | | after the wedding, many couples are going on |
| that's not enough, here's something else that | | | | their honeymoon at a later time. |
| should get you excited. By 2012, the U.S. market | | | | The bottom line is that the prime target for those |
| is expected to explode to $23 billion annually. | | | | engaging in honeymoon tourism has changed over |
| That's right, it will almost double in a very short | | | | the past two decades. Here's a little nugget from |
| period of time. The global picture is very large. | | | | my book on profiting from honeymoon tourism. |
| However, before you stop what you're doing and | | | | Younger married couples are the least likely to |
| attack this exploding, profitable market in the | | | | honeymoon. |
| travel industry, you need to get educated. If | | | | I've already given you one top honeymoon spot, |
| you're like most people, you think a | | | | Hawaii, but do you know the other top |
| honeymooning couple is 18-20s, just married and | | | | honeymoon destinations in the world? Sure, there |
| going off to Hawaii on their parent's dime. That | | | | are lots of unofficial "lists" out there, but the ones |
| isn't so. The demographics and psychographics of | | | | in my book are the real deal-over 6,000 power |
| honeymooners have changed over the years. | | | | agents surveyed. Actually, in a recent report (one |
| If you don't know your target, you won't profit | | | | is conducted each year) Hawaii wasn't the top |
| well in the honeymoon tourism market. So what's | | | | honeymoon destination. |
| changed? One thing is jobs status. Over the past | | | | There's a lot of profit in the honeymoon tourism |
| 20 years women have increasingly entered the | | | | market. The only question is whether you want it |
| workforce and they are obtaining higher positions | | | | or not. |
| than before. The economy has changed as well. | | | | |