Welcome to SoloFriendly.com, a blog for solo travelers! Or any travelers for that matter. We don’t discriminate. This blog is currently a work in progress, but eventually, it will hold travel tips and planning tools, links to articles of relevance to solo travelers, recommendations of solo-friendly travel destinations, and much, much more.
Some interesting statistics:
The U.S. Census Bureau reports that there are nearly 90 million single people in the U.S.
According to a 2007 report by the Travel Industry Association, 11% of all leisure travelers in the U.S. travel alone–that’s 34.8 million people.
The American Automobile Association breaks this figure down by demographic: 35% of all single travelers are aged 18-35; 27% are aged 35-49; 26% are 50-64 years old; and 12% are 65+.
My point being, more and more of us are traveling alone, so it can’t be all that bad, can it? If you’re not doing it, you should be!
on Oct 2nd, 2008 at 11:53 am
[...] I stumbled across this thread today at FlyerTalk.com and wanted to share it. I have never actually stayed at a hotel where single rooms were even an option, so I have had no personal experience with this myself. But I can’t say I’m terribly surprised to hear that the single rooms that do exist in hotels are often closet-sized afterthoughts with a view of a brick wall. (And let’s not kid ourselves, those room probably were closets once upon a time.) I just don’t see why it is so hard for the hotel industry to understand that a large percentage of travelers these days are traveling alone and would like to have single rooms that are the same quality as double rooms, just smaller and priced accordingly. Just because a person is traveling alone doesn’t mean they shouldn’t have a great experience, too. In fact, it’s been my experience that little things like the view out the window are actually more important to me when I’m traveling alone than when I am traveling with a partner. Yet, you never hear hotels say, as they are building new properties, that they are going to have “x number of single rooms” in order to accommodate the ever-increasing numbers of solo travelers today. Do you think they just haven’t seen these statistics? [...]
on Apr 27th, 2009 at 7:20 am
[...] travelers and diners, I’m sure. How many people is that? Let me quote some statistics from my very first post on this blog, dated February 18, [...]