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Top travel cities for New Year’s Eve celebrations
Big cities are back in vogue for both Americans and Europeans planning to celebrate the upcoming New Year’s Eve, according to three of the world’s major hotel reservation networks.
Priceline.com, Travelweb LLC and Active Hotels recently surveyed thousands of hotel reservation requests or bookings to see where visitors preferred to spend the holiday.
Priceline.com found that the number-one destination for Americans on New Year’s Eve is New York City’s midtown west neighborhood, home to Times Square.
New York City neighborhoods made up 60% of the top 10 destinations selected by priceline.com customers.
Other popular American destinations included Las Vegas, New Orleans, Chicago and Orlando.
A New Year’s Eve booking survey conducted by Internet hotel reservation service Travelweb LLC largely mirrored priceline.com’s findings. New York was the number-one spot this year, with Las Vegas, Chicago and Orlando also ranking in the top 10.
Unlike priceline.com, Travelweb hotel customers also put Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami and Montreal in their top 10.
Europeans’ New Year’s Eve preferences were measured by Active Hotels, which found that London was the top destination for 31 December, followed in order of preference by Paris, Barcelona and Madrid.
Average bookings for New Year’s Eve were up approximately 100% compared to a year ago, the survey found.
Within the UK, Active Hotels found that the favorite New Year’s Eve destinations were London followed by Manchester, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Glasgow and York.
For the first time since Active Hotels started to compile its list in 2002, Manchester knocked Edinburgh’s famous Hogmanay celebrations into 3rd place.
Report by David Wilkening
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