Travel Agency Channel Segmentation – Monthly % Change – ARC
As you can tell if you are trying to get serious business done, it is summertime and there is a decided slowdown of business and also, since over 85% of all overnight trips are by car, summer is definitely the season for drive travel, so this contributes to the slowing in growth on the air ticket sales side of the equation.
Everyone was below the line in July. So the downtrend is largely attributed to normal seasonality, but of course is heightened by the current paralysis due to market volatility.
