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Sunday Travel

  • Content attracts the Bay Area's most frequent travelers.
  • Subject focus delivers qualified travel prospects.
  • Excellent environment for airlines, luggage, hotel, rental cars and all other travel related messages.


FIRST CLASS SURROUNDINGS
Every week, our expanded Sunday Travel section delivers colorful portraits of exciting destinations - from quaint bed and breakfasts a half-hour away, to seaside retreats half way around the world. With its weekly blend of helpful travel tips, panoramic cover stories and value-intensive advertising, Sunday Travel is the only resource readers need for travel ideas, plans and arrangements. Regular features include:
  • COVER STORIES – Colorful feature stories that run the gamut from nearby getaways to exotic foreign destinations. Each story includes IF YOU GO, a handy sidebar with hotels, driving directions and other useful data.
  • TRAVEL ADVISORY – A quick read listing hot travel deals, special events, useful websites, worthwhile guidebooks and more.
  • TRAVELOGUE – Commentary and background on travel trends.
  • TAKING THE KIDS - This popular column highlights destinations and strategies for successful family vacations (at family-friendly prices).
  • FOREIGN EXCHANGE – The latest foreign currency exchange rates.
  • Plus short travel news items, a chart of lowest current airfares and more.
  • AND MUCH MORE...

FIRST CLASS AUDIENCE
No matter what part of the travel industry you represent, you'll reach the most desirable audience of frequent travelers in Northern California with Sunday Travel. As part of the Sunday Mercury News, one issue of Sunday Travel reaches 808,300 Bay Area adults. In Santa Clara County alone, we reach:

  • 46% of all adults aged 25-54.
  • 52% of all married adults.
  • 42% of all adults with children in the household.
  • 56% of all adults with household incomes of $75,000 or more.
  • 51% of all adults with household incomes of $150,000 or more.
  • 51% of adults who have taken a weekend getaway in the past 12 months
  • 56 % of adults who have rented a car in the past 12 months
  • 55% of adults who have stayed at a hotel in the past 12 months.

ADVERTISING RATES
Regular ROP rates apply. For additional information, contact your Mercury News sales representative today or call 408-920-5589.

Sources: 2004 Gallup Poll of Media Usage and Consumer Behavior