Lower oil pricing is already have an impact on the upcoming Orlando resorts travel season. Although vacation rentals are popular as ever, it is clear that some level of interest as expressed in our holiday resort inquiries is based on continued favorable petro pricing levels. This is from both domestic and international travelers to Orlando.
Summer Holidays in Orlando
Media outlets indicate that a combination of lower oil prices, cheaper airfares and lesser air travel taxes for UK visitors may lead to record travel and tremendous savings for a trip to Florida. United Kingdom families received a huge travel cost break in late 2014 when British Chancellor George Osborne indicated that children under the age of 12 would not be subject to taxes on flights. For a typical UK family travelling to Florida for example, this could mean a reduction of hundreds of dollars in travel expenses.
Orlando Resorts
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) also projects a double benefit in terms of reduced airfare prices in 2015. IATA projects that average airfare prices could drop as much as 5% in 2015. This will help encourage a robust Orlando resorts travel season especially for the summer holidays.
Domestic travelers will of course also be greeted with good news at the pump. A check of Orlando gas prices indicates that at the time of this post, petro is around $2 a gallon which is down 45% from $3.55 a gallon levels in the summer of 2014. For a Midwestern American family traveling to Orlando, this is a potential expense windfall of several hundred dollars.
This is a perfect storm for travel to Orlando for the summer of 2015.
New attractions at Disney’s Animal Kingdom in 2015 are also expected to build demand and continue to bring in more holiday visitors. The same is true for Universal Orlando as Jurassic World and Skull Island as these new attractions debut in 2015.
Book Now for the 2015 Summer Holidays
For the best choice of resort villas, we recommend booking now. Orlando resorts travel planning is best for the summer when availability is at its peak. This is certainly true of resort villa rentals that are in high demand.
A quick check of OVH 360 rental home availability for the 2015 Independence Day holidays indicates that there are still some excellent rental values. However, we do recommend that for optimal selection, one strongly consider booking in the next 30-60 days. Based on lower oil pricing and new attractions in 2015, the level of Orlando resorts travel bookings could be at their highest levels.
