Trends influencing the hospitality industry

1. technology 
2. more comfortable travel 
3. communication 
4. aging population
5. early retirement 
6. long life span & better health in senior years 
7. political changes 
8. two wage earner families 
9. smaller families 
10. change in consumer spending patterns

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