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Labor Day ends the summer travel season, right?

Marketplace All-in-One

Marketplace

News, Business

4.51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summer travel is usually supposed to be a major time for the tourism industry. But this year, budget-conscious American travelers are adjusting their vacation plans. Consumers are actually taking more trips than initially anticipated, but they're tending to be shorter, less expensive, and later in the summer than usual. Plus, a new justice tech startup is using AI to simplify the criminal record expungement process in Mississippi.

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Labor Day weekend ends the summer travel season, right?

1:06.5

For Marketplace, I'm Novosopham for David Brancaccio.

1:09.6

Let's talk summer travel. It's supposed to be peak tourism and was forecast to be slow this year. But on both points, there's surprising news. Joining me is Eileen Crowley. She tracks the transportation and hospitality industry at the audit and advisory firm Deloitte. Good morning. Glad to be here. Has the summer travel season

1:28.8

turned out as we expected? One of the biggest trends that we're seeing is that folks are actually

1:34.7

taking more trips this summer and expected to. So, you know, the trips might be a little bit quicker

1:41.2

and shorter. But again, that prioritization of leisure travel is continuing

1:46.9

for Americans is what we're seeing. So some signs of good news, but we are seeing some tweaks,

1:54.0

perhaps, to summer travel plans for Americans. What have those tweaks been besides the shorter,

2:00.1

maybe quicker trips?

2:01.6

You are definitely correct. I like to refer to our travelers this summer as more the budget

2:07.2

conscious traveler, a little bit more frugal than perhaps in summer's past. But they're doing

2:13.7

less international trips. They're also thinking about spending less once they

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