Summer Travel Insights: Maximize Your Vacation Budget

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast

NerdWallet Personal Finance

Business, Education, Investing, How To

4.2 • 665 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Unlock insights on vacation spending to leverage summer travel trends, and dive into the latest employment report. Planning to travel this summer? In this episode of NerdWallet’s Smart Money podcast, hosts Sean Pyles and Anna Helhoski delve into the world of summer travel. They discuss the key findings from NerdWallet’s 2024 Summer Travel Report, revealing insights into Americans’ vacation plans and expected spending. NerdWallet travel rewards expert Sally French joins them to dissect the latest trends in airline fees, price fluctuations, and factors influencing travel decisions. Whether you plan on traveling across the globe, or staying local, understanding summer trends can help you optimize your travel planning. Later in this week’s Money News roundup, Sean and Anna cover the latest money headlines, including the March employment report and a new student loan relief program. From travel and job market trends to initiatives aimed at reducing student loan debt, this episode highlights some evolving aspects of the American financial landscape. In their conversation, the Nerds discuss: summer travel, vacation spending, travel trends, money news, airline fees, travel expenses, travel insights, travel decisions, travel tips, travel rewards, employment report, job market trends, student loan relief, student loan debt, financial developments, personal finance, summer vacations, travel planning, inflation impact, travel industry, airline pricing, travel costs, budgeting tips, financial decisions, economic indicators, financial trends, travel research, travel data, travel analysis, vacation budget, travel hacks, budget travel, money management, financial advice, money-saving tips To send the Nerds your money questions, call or text the Nerd hotline at 901-730-6373 or email [email protected]. Like what you hear? Please leave us a review and tell a friend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.0	Welcome to Nerd Wallet's Smart Money Podcast.
0:33.7	I'm Sean Piles.
0:34.7	And I'm Anna Hilhouski.
0:36.3	And this is our weekly Money News Roundup, where we break down the latest in the world of finance to help you be smarter with your money. We'll go deep into a single topic and then leave you with the latest money headlines. And today we're talking about summer travel. Anna, do you have any big vacation plans this year?
0:51.0	Oh, not yet. I need to get cracking. How about you, Sean? I'm hoping to meet up with my twin sister in Chicago for our birthday in June, but we have
0:58.0	yet to work out the details.
1:00.0	But here is some information that might help your decision.
1:03.0	NerdWallet's 24 summer travel report, a survey of more than 2,000 adults conducted by the
1:08.0	Harris Poll for NerdWalletet found that this summer, nearly
1:11.2	half of Americans plan to take a trip that includes a flight or hotel stay.
1:15.1	That's right, Sean, and they'll spend an average of $3,594 on their trips.
1:21.7	All in all, over 118 million Americans are expected to spend more than $424 billion on this kind of travel for
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