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The down economy means fewer people can afford to tack on vacation time to a trip, and fewer people are willing to risk the negative perceptions that may exist about travel perks, says Peter Yesawich of Ypartnership, an Orlando-based travel research and marketing firm.

The economy is expected to speed the decline in dual-purpose trips, he says, but the trend has been falling out of favor for about seven years.

Only about 30% of business travelers said they brought along their spouse or kids — or just added some alone time — before, during or after a business trip in the past year, according to the Ypartnership/Yankelovich National Leisure Travel Monitor released in May. In 2000, 60% said they’d combined trips. Yesawich estimates the rate would be even lower today. “People would say, ‘It’s all about serious business now,’ ” he says.

Michael Steiner of Ovation Corporate Travel, a Manhattan-based agency, says Ovation’s corporate clients are especially cutting their weekend stays on domestic trips.

“Last year, they were more apt to stay a Friday and Saturday night, but this year, they’re coming home,” he says.

Phil Lapp, a snack foods sales manager from Lancaster, Pa., who’s on the road about half the time, says he hasn’t combined trips in several years, due to the increasingly competitive business environment and the demands of having two young children, ages 4 and 2. He doesn’t plan to do anything differently next year.

“Traveling now is difficult enough, but when you factor in trying to coordinate family schedules with business meetings, it creates a chaotic and sometimes distracting environment,” he says.

Some hotels and destinations, however, continue to see opportunity.

Seattle, which has eight Fortune 500 companies based in the region and has a healthy convention business, expects to keep drawing more dual-purpose visitors, says Tom Norwalk, CEO of Seattle’s Convention and Visitors Bureau. More business travelers, for instance, have been tacking on cruises before and after their trips, he says.

And the Cambria Suites at the airport at Savannah, Ga. — where a night’s stay costs around $100 a room — has continued to see around 15% of business guests stay an extra day, even during the stock market’s meltdown, says Hal Smith, the hotel’s general manager. Some guests bring golf clubs to play in the area, though most stay longer to take tours and enjoy the city’s historic district, he says.

Since the trend has endured this fall, Smith next year plans to offer new golf and tour packages to help offset the decline in business travel.

“That will encourage people to stay an extra day,” Smith says, “so instead of leaving Thursday afternoon, they might stay through Friday or Saturday.”

“The Northeast and Mid-Atlantic will have an increasingly dry day,” said Mark Ressler, lead meteorologist at The Weather Channel. “I don’t think delays should be as horrible as they were” on Sunday.

On Sunday, passengers milled in airports from Los Angeles to Atlanta, delayed by ice, wind, low visibility and other weather challenges. Elsewhere, police raced to accidents on rain-slicked roads.

Flights in Philadelphia and Newark, N.J., were delayed nearly four hours, and fliers in Boston and the New York City area were waiting 2½ hours for their planes to take off, the Federal Aviation Administration said.

Buzz Bernard, also a lead meteorologist at The Weather Channel, identified two major culprits: rain along the East Coast and snow in parts of the Midwest.

In Chicago, about 50 flights were canceled by mid-afternoon, said Karen Pride, spokeswoman for the Chicago Airport System, which includes Chicago O’Hare and Midway international airports. “We will be putting up cots and blankets for passengers if they choose to stay here at the airport,” she said.

Amid a downturn in global tourism, a new U.S. travel rule is triggering optimism in the industry for more inbound visitors from several countries.

The federal government will expand its Visa Waiver Program today to include South Korea and six Eastern European countries — Hungary, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Slovak Republic. It paves the way for the citizens of these countries to enter the USA for up to three months without obtaining a visa.

They join 27 developed countries, including the U.K., France and Japan, that have been granted the privilege. U.S. tourism officials have been vigorously lobbying for expansion in recent years to include other countries as a means to generate more visitors and ease concerns that the USA hasn’t been as welcoming following 9/11.

In 2007, about 29 million travelers from overseas — excluding Mexico and Canada — visited the USA, up 10% from 2006, according to the Travel Industry Association. But given the global economic crisis, the number of overseas visitors to the USA is expected to drop 3% in 2009 to 25.5 million from an estimated 26.3 million this year, the TIA says.

In 2007, about 29 million travelers from overseas — excluding Mexico and Canada — visited the USA, up 10% from 2006, according to the Travel Industry Association. But given the global economic crisis, the number of overseas visitors to the USA is expected to drop 3% in 2009 to 25.5 million from an estimated 26.3 million this year, the TIA says.

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