New Survey Among Travel Services Finds Americans & Europeans Returning To Big-Crowd Party Hot-Spots For New Year's Eve.NORWALK, Conn. -- Three of the world's major hotel reservation networks - priceline.com(R) (Nasdaq: PCLN PCLN Priceline.com (stock abbreviation, AMEX) ), Travelweb LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control and Active Hotels - are reporting that big cities are back in vogue for Americans and Europeans planning to celebrate New Year's Eve 2004. In total, the three reservation services, which are all owned by priceline.com, work with over 20,000 hotel properties around the globe. Recently, the services independently surveyed thousands of actual hotel reservation requests or bookings made by their customers for the night of December 31, 2004, to see where Americans and Europeans preferred to spend the holiday - and how those preferences might compare to past years. Priceline.com found that the number-one destination for Americans on New Year's Eve is none other than New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of City's midtown mid·town n. A central portion of a city, between uptown and downtown. midtown Noun US & Canad the centre of a town west neighborhood, home to Times Square. In fact, New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. neighborhoods made up 60% of the top 10 destinations selected by priceline.com customers. Other popular destinations included Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. , New Orleans New Orleans (ôr`lēənz –lənz, ôrlēnz`), city (2006 pop. 187,525), coextensive with Orleans parish, SE La., between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, 107 mi (172 km) by water from the river mouth; founded , Chicago and Orlando. (Full list appears at end of release). When priceline.com compiled its top destinations list for New Year's Eve 2001, right after 9/11, the most popular destination for those who did mark New Year's Eve was the southern Nevada desert town of Las Vegas, whose various neighborhoods made up 50% of that year's top 10 list. New York City neighborhoods held just two spots in the 2001 top 10, with Times Square coming in a distant 3rd to Las Vegas' south and north Strip areas. A New Year's Eve booking survey conducted by Internet hotel reservation service Travelweb LLC largely mirrored priceline.com's findings. New York was the number-one spot this year, with Las Vegas, Chicago and Orlando also ranking in the top 10. Unlike priceline.com, Travelweb hotel customers also put Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , Miami and Montreal in their top 10. Europeans' New Year's Eve preferences were measured by Active Hotels, one of the leading hotel reservation services for the UK and continental Europe Continental Europe, also referred to as mainland Europe or simply the Continent, is the continent of Europe, explicitly excluding European islands and, at times, peninsulas. . Active Hotels found that London was the top destination for December 31st, followed in order of preference by Paris, Barcelona and Madrid. Average bookings for New Year's Eve were up approximately 100% compared to a year ago. Within the UK, Active Hotels found that the favorite New Year's Eve destinations were, in order, London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Glasgow and York. For the first time since Active Hotels started to compile its list in 2002, Manchester has knocked Edinburgh's famous Hogmanay celebrations into 3rd place. Priceline.com's Top Destinations For New Year's Eve 2004 (Destinations are ranked in descending order of popularity among American customers based on actual hotel booking requests made on the priceline.com Web site between January 1 and December 7, 2004 for occupancy on the night of December 31, 2004). #1 New York, midtown west #2 Las Vegas Strip vicinity #3 New York, midtown east #4 New York, midtown south #5 New York, upper midtown/Central Park south #6 New Orleans, French Quarter #7 New York, upper east side #8 Chicago, North Michigan Avenue #9 New York, downtown/Soho #10 Orlando, Disney World vicinity #11 New York, upper west side #12 Miami, South Beach #13 Las Vegas, Convention Center area #14 Orlando, Universal Studios/Sea World area #15 Las Vegas, west of Strip area #16 Las Vegas, UNLV area #17 New Orleans, central business district #18 Las Vegas, airport area #19 Las Vegas, Fremont St. area #20 Chicago, The Loop/Grant Park About Priceline.com Priceline.com is a travel service that offers leisure airline tickets, hotel rooms, rental cars, vacation packages and cruises. Priceline.com also has a personal finance service that offers home mortgages, refinancing Refinancing An extension and/or increase in amount of existing debt. and home equity loans through an independent licensee. Priceline.com operates the retail travel Web sites Travelweb.com, Activereservations.com, Lowestfare.com, RentalCars.com and BreezeNet.com. Priceline.com licenses its business model to independent licensees, including pricelinemortgage and certain international licensees. |
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