Places

Places Destinations, travel, tourism

Polls listed chronologically. Data are from nationwide surveys of Americans 18 & older.

AP-GfK Poll conducted by GfK Roper Public Affairs & Media. Aug. 11-16, 2010. N=1,007 adults nationwide. MoE ą 4.5.
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"How confident are you that the beaches in the areas in the Gulf that were affected by the oil spill are safe for swimming . . . ?"
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		Extremely confident	Very confident	Somewhat confident	Not too confident	Not confident at all
		%	%	%	%	%
	8/11-16/10	4	9	30	26	29

USA Today/Gallup Poll. Dec. 11-13, 2009. N=1,025 adults nationwide. MoE ą 4.
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"Now I'd like to ask you about your travel plans for all of 2010 compared to all of 2009. Do you think you will spend more, less, or about the same on [see below] next year as you did this year?"
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		More	About the same	Less	Unsure	.
		%	%	%	%	.
	"Vacations"
	12/11-13/09	22	50	27	2	.
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	"Airline flights"
	12/11-13/09	16	49	29	5	.
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	"Hotel stays"
	12/11-13/09	16	51	30	3	.

NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll conducted by the polling organizations of Peter Hart (D) and Neil Newhouse (R). July 27-30, 2007. N=1,005 adults nationwide. MoE ą 3.1.
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"As you may know, China will be hosting the 2008 summer Olympics in Beijing. How interested would you say that you are in personally visiting China: very interested, fairly interested, not that interested, or not interested at all?"
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		Very interested	Fairly interested	Not that interested	Not at all interested	Unsure
		%	%	%	%	%
	7/27-30/07	15	17	14	53	1

Gallup Poll. May 22-24, 2006. N=1,003 adults nationwide, randomly drawn from Gallup's household panel, which was originally recruited through random selection methods.
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"If money were no object, where would you go on your dream vacation?" Open-ended
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		Top responses
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	Hawaii	17
	Europe	11
	Australia	6
	Italy	5
	Alaska/Alaskan cruise	4
	California	2
	Florida	2
	Greece	2
	London/England	2
	Ireland	2
	Fiji	2
	Bahamas	2

Gallup Poll. Oct. 11-14, 2004. N=approx. 500 adults nationwide. MoE ą 5.
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"Now thinking about some large cities, both those you have visited and those you have never visited, from what you know and have read, do you consider each of the following cities to be safe to live in or visit, or not? How about [see below]?"
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		Safe
		%
	Minneapolis	78
	Seattle	75
	Dallas	70
	Boston	68
	Houston	67
	San Francisco	61
	Atlanta	58
	Chicago	53
	Philadelphia	49
	New York	44
	Miami	40
	Los Angeles	38
	Washington, D.C.	37
	Detroit	33

The Harris Poll. July 18-22, 2002. N=1,010 adults nationwide. MoE ą 3.
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"If you could live in or near any city in the country, except the one you live in or nearest to now, what city would you choose?"
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		Top Responses, Ranked
		2002	2001	2000	1999	1998
	New York	1	1	1	1	2
	San Francisco	2	2 tie	6 tie	3	1
	Seattle	3	4	3	2	4
	Orlando	4	12	10 tie	8	9 tie
	Atlanta	5	9	2	4	3
	Denver	6 tie	5 tie	4	6	5 tie
	Chicago	6 tie	7 tie	6 tie	5	12 tie
	San Diego	8	2 tie	5	9	7 tie
	Dallas	9	-	-	-	11
	Los Angeles	10	11	12 tie	13 tie	14

The Harris Poll. July 18-22, 2002. N=1,022 adults nationwide. MoE ą 3.
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"If you could live in any state in the country, except the state you live in now, what state would you choose to live in?"
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		Top Responses, Ranked
		2002	2001	2000	1999	1998
	California	1	2	5	2	3
	Florida	2	1	1	1	1
	Hawaii	3	3	7	9 tie	7 tie
	Colorado	4	4	2	3	2
	North Carolina	5	7	3	4	4
	Arizona	6	6	4	6	5
	Tennessee	7	10	15	13	6
	New York	8	8	10 tie	*	15 tie
	Washington	9	5	6	8	12
	Oregon	10	9	14	15	9
	Montana	11	11	10 tie	7	*
	Virginia	12 tie	14 tie	8 tie	9 tie	11
	Alaska	12 tie	14 tie	13	9 tie	15 tie
	Texas	14	12	10 tie	5	7 tie
	Georgia	15	13	8 tie	12	14
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* Not in top 15

The Harris Poll. July 18-22, 2002. N=1,010 adults nationwide. MoE ą 3.
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"If you could spend a vacation in any country in the world, outside the United States, and you would not have to worry about the cost, what one country would you choose?"
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		Top Responses, Ranked
		2002	2001	2000	1999
	Australia	1	1	1	1
	Great Britain (England, Scotland, or Wales)	2	3	4	2
	Italy	3	2	2	4
	Canada	4	9	7	6
	Ireland	5	6	5	7
	France	6	4	3	5
	Germany	7	5	6	3
	Switzerland	8	8	8 tie	9 tie
	Jamaica	9 tie	7	10	8
	Barbados	9 tie	*	*	*
	Spain	11	12 tie	11	12
	Mexico	12	12 tie	8 tie	9 tie
	New Zealand	13	14 tie	14 tie	13 tie
	Greece	14 tie	14 tie	14 tie	11
	Brazil	14 tie	*	*	*
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		* Not in top 15

Gallup Poll. May 20-22, 2002. N=1,002 adults nationwide. MoE ą 3.
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"Now, thinking more generally about vacations: Suppose you could go to any of the 50 states in the U.S. In which state would you especially like to take a vacation?"
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		5/02	7/99
		%	%
	Hawaii	16	17
	Florida	15	10
	California	11	12
	Alaska	7	10
	Colorado	5	7
	Arizona	4	3
	New York	4	2
	Texas	3	1
	Washington	2	4
	Montana	2	3
	Nevada	2	2
	Maine	2	4
	Massachusetts	2	1
	South Carolina	2	1
	Other	17	16
	None	2	1
	No opinion	4	3

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