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BELLEVUE, Wash., Jan. 30, 2014
BELLEVUE, Wash., Jan. 30, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Expedia.com®, the world's leading online travel site, today released the Expedia® Wave Report, an annual analysis of cruising trends. 6,867 respondents – Expedia travelers who have cruised at least once – revealed their favored ports of call, most desirable destinations, attitudes towards cruise safety and other preferences.
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Of the Expedia cruisers who participated in the study, cruising continues to be the vacation style of choice. Fifty-five percent of respondents expect to take a cruise within 2014. Fifty-three percent of Wave Report respondents consider cruises to be superior vacations to any other type of vacation, while more than three-fourths of respondents feel cruises are either superior, or at least equal to, other forms of travel.
"Cruisers are repeat customers. In fact, the average cruise traveler in our study has taken at least four cruises," said Koreen McNutt, Senior Director of Expedia Cruise. "Whether it's the food, the ports of call or the convenience of unpacking just once, cruising remains one of the most popular ways to travel among those who've tried it at least once."
Other findings of the Expedia Wave Report include:
The Expedia Wave Report also revealed 2014's most-coveted destinations as the Eastern Mediterranean, featuring exotic ports along the Adriatic Sea including Croatia, Cypress, Greece, Israel, Eastern Italy and Turkey, followed by Alaska in the number two spot. The top cruise destinations that made Expedia cruisers wish lists for 2014 are:
The Expedia Wave Report was fielded in January 2014 and features responses from 6,867 travelers that have cruised at least once and used Expedia.com to shop for their cruise.
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