Posts Tagged ‘ Thanksgiving ’
Last week at the PhocusWright conference in Orlando, Florida, I had the pleasure of presenting with Rick Seaney, the CEO of FareCompare. One topic that we discussed is the impact of changing airfares and capacity upon the upcoming Thanksgiving travel season. There has been significant coverage in the media about many travelers not flying during [...][ READ MORE ]
Holiday projections are out and many are predicting a gloomy holiday season for retailers. The NRF forecasts a 1% decline growth in total retail sales for the 2009 holiday season, totaling $437.6 billion. The online channel is poised to fare somewhat better, with Forrester Research projecting an increase of 8% to $44.7 billion. The official [...][ READ MORE ]
Today we issued the secondpress release in our Hitwise Holiday Series, highlighting the fact that search is driving 48% of visits to the top recipe sites as we approach Thanksgiving. I decided to take this opportunity to pull out one of my favorite charts that demonstrates the trade-off between searches for Thanksgiving Day recipes and [...][ READ MORE ]
