As the summer travel season draws to a close, South Florida hotels and restaurants are targeting locals with specials.
Deals abound all over South Florida:
• A five-day stretch of shopping discounts in downtown Coral Gables kicks off Monday.
• Miami Spice lures foodies until the end of September with three-course lunches for $22 and dinners for $35.
• Miami Spa Month offers deals on pampering through the end of August, and a Broward version, Lauderdale Spa Chic, started Sunday and lasts until Sept. 30.
MAKING A DEAL
In an April 2010 travelhorizons survey by travel research firm Ypartnership and the U.S. Travel Association, 9 percent of U.S. adults said they planned to take a staycation between May and October because they couldn't afford to travel. In the same survey, 8 percent of adults said they had taken a home-based vacation instead of a previously planned out-of-town trip in the prior six months.
That's down from the previous July, when 14 percent of U.S. adults had staycationed in the previous six months rather than going away.
About 75 percent of this summer's business has been from within Florida, Roth said.
Copied from Miami Herald article from August 15, 2010. Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/08/15/1777739/for-locals-wanting-vacation-no.html#ixzz0wmMhCKct
