Theres no shortage of online options, but as more sites keep appearing, where should you book to get the best deal . There are new ways to get away, and that is our cover story this week. Revenue from u. S. Travel will be more than 380 billion in 2017, but americans are spending a lot of time searching for that trip. In the six weeks before actually booking a vacation, consumers made up to 38 visits to travel websites. That can Search Engines like kayak, expedia and orbitz and hotel review and hotel sites. Online travel agencies received an average of 15 million visitors a month in 2014. Thats the most recent year that information was available. Airline websites had an average of over 30 million views, and hotel wednesdayize the over 20 million. How consumers use those sites is changing. By 2017 more than 25 of Online Travel bookings will be done on having so many chases can be overwhelming. So travelers are now returning to oldfashioned ways of booking, travel agents. And in the last 12 months 22 of consumers used travel agents, the highest percentage in three years. Millenials are leading the renewed interest because they say it saves them time and stress. Steve hafner helped launch orbitz back in 1999. Five years later he cofounded kayak and hes still the ceo of the travel search engine. Thanks for becky, grace to be back. Obviously things are always changing in the travel industry, but the idea of this kind of throwback vacation where people are actually looking to hire travel agents again, its kind of stunning and shocking. Himmials thinking that time is money so they dont want to deal with it. How do you as an Online Travel site deal with some of those trends . Sure. Its interesting to have the trend reversed. You know, there used to be 26,000 travel agents 15 years ago and got down to about being 12,000 and now its climbing what youre seeing that theres a whole generation of people who are more familiar with text messaging and voice via siri who are looking for different interaction with an Online Travel agency than your traditional point and click with a mouse. Those of us who are used to Search Engines and going into google. Thatright, thats right. Kayak the way were trying to respond to that is by investing a lot into artificial intelligence, so weve got a Facebook Messenger chat bot, for example, voice interaction wh alexa which is a service from amazon where you can actually talk to kayak and say, hey, kayak, whats the status of my flight t later snad where can i go this weekend for 300 . Those type of services help the Younger Generation connect with us, and the services are pretty good. You know, they need tuning over time so were reasonably smart about our answers, but they will keep getting better. Obviously this is Brand New Technology for you, but how much of your business does it make up right now verses those of us who a lot of people will use the desk tops, use the phones to search and then go to the desktop to book. Lets talk about older folks going on and using the site the d way. I admit i go on kayak and check prices. May not buy directly and may go to the airline where i find the cheapest price. How do you get paid on a transaction like that . Kayak, like google. Dont need to make money every time you u if you occasionally use, eventually youll clk g from the services that we offer well get a small piece that have transaction. You know, overall we process over 1. 5 billion queries, you know. Do you get paid on advertising. Advertising as well, although we prefer that the services are that we provide are very clean so not ad heavy so its up to the consumer for where they want and have the greatest comfort of familiarity where they want to go book from. Personally i book direct with thats right. And we try to figure out who your competitors are. Who do you see as your xedtors . Expedia and travelocity and those guys. What we really compete with is consumer familiarity and going to a Traditional Travel Agency or going to the airline site directly one at a time. You know, mergers in the Airline Business and in the travel industry, but especially in the Airline Business, have resulted in less competition. Whats that mean in terms of the ho does that impact your business . Yeah, you know, consolidation overall is good for the american consumer. There are fewer airlines now, but the flight theres more flights and its cheaper to fly now than it used to be. Thats good for the consumer and good for kayak, too, because, you know, we can show people lower fares and more people will travel which is good for everyone. You know, i do hope the government lets more entrants in because its always good competition. Now airlines in, new routes opened up and new slots at the encouraging signs that more Foreign Airlines will be able to enter into the u. S. Speaking of new slots and new routes, cuba is a new destination that americans are allowed to travel to at this point. Have you seen much interest in people searching for cuba . One of our top trending destinations, particu follg obamas visit there recently. Three weeks ago jetblue became the first u. S. Airline to resume scheduled service between u. S. And cuba, first time in over 50 years, and over eight airlines should be between now and the end of the year. Wow. And kayak right now is the only website you can go to that actually shows you all the travel options. Great. Steve, want to thank you so much for joining us. Always a pleasure to see you. Always a pleasure. Thanks, now heres a look at whats making news as we head into w w American Consumers didnt shop quite as much as expected in august. Retail sales which are always closely watched fell by 0. 3 of slowing auto sales and falling gas line prices. Consumers, as you know, make up more than twothirds of the american economy. That actually sent stocks up on thursday because it means that theres a decreased chance that the fed will hike Interest Rates at its reserve meeting this week. The nasdaq climbed as well after a very choppy week with the market following the latest sentiment about a possible rate hike, but stocks were lower on friday. The Consumer ProductSafety Commission is recalling the Samsung Galaxy note 7. The can explode and cause fires, and the faa has warned passengers not to use them on planes. Replacements will be available this coming tuesday. 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Repor here in Southeast Asia, its the new front lines for the global sneaker wars, and thats why steph curry, backed by under armour, toured china, hong kong and taiwan to cultivate a new generation of sneaker consumers. Its why the battle wont be played on an nba court back in the u. S. But in small gyms across asia. Ready, set, go. Reporter like here in taipei coaching, meeting, greeting, signing autographs and taking selfies with eager fans. But like it did in the u. S. , under armour here in Greater China is playing catchup to nike who has been in the market for decades. Kevin plank, the ceo of under armour, is trying to do what he did in the u. S. In this market. It takes time, you know. Since 2010 weve gone from our first Million Dollars in business to 3 million in 12 to this year. Reporter increasing the revenue is something steph curry wants to make his mission as hes still learning the ins and outs of the business. All the conversations and the details that go into making a great shoe, a great apparel, i want to be a part of that day in and day out, and so those conversations have been amazing. They have been here in china to try to reporter do you guys fight . Weve had a couple, good battles, like teammates. If you dont get on each other other from time to time. Who wins in this relationship . He wins, hes got the final call. R like under armour curry needs to build his brand. Espn at allied the most famous athletes. Nike stars like lebron james and kevin durant and kobe bryant comes in hat number 11 and steph curry at number 34, but curry says hes just getting started. What he said to me and look what he said, under armour basketball, like give it to me, ive got this. Reporte fans across asia came out in crowds, enthusiasticaling their heros and missing school and link up at 5 00 a. M. Outside under armours store just to get a glimpse. Its clear under armour has a rising star. Thank, guys, thank you. Reporter who clearly likes this part of game. And while under armoural are growing very fast in the Greater China region, multiplying by three times in just the First Quarter of this year, theres still a tiny fraction of competitors nic sales in the region which are about 4 billion and ly its about less than 15 of under armours total business. For nike, becky, its more than half. Sara, did steph curry an kevin plank give you any idea what they are working on next seems like those two are really kind of coconspirators with big plans there . Its a close collaboration and their fortunes are certainly tied. They have a new sneaker coming out. The curry 3s late they are fall, and we did talk about his chef curry shoes which were released earlier this summer. Got mocked for being all white dad shoes. You can expect more those. That was not painful at all. I shade more dad shoes, more shoes left up interpretation, and beck, they were hot sellers. All right. Something fun to see. Sara, thanks for chasing them down around the globe. Up next on the money, protecting your informati from hackers. Is your Financial Advisers doing enough . We have the three questions you need to ask before handing anything over. And later, she was a struggling single mom just off food stamps when her daughter i am sebastian artois. Brewmaster. Risktaker. I am sebastian artois. S be y what powers the Digital World . Communication. Like centurylinks Broadband Network that gives 35,000 fans a cutting edge game experience. Or the network that keeps a leading hotel chains guests connected at work, and at play. Businesses count on communication, and communication counts on centurylink. I am sebastian artois. Brewmaster. Risktaker. I sold everything i had to own a brewery. You might have heard its name. Stella artois be legacy hopefully you trust your Financial Advisers with your money, but what about your personal information . New Research Shows most advisers think Cyber Security is a threat, but they dont know how to protect their clients from attacks. Senior personal finance correspondent Sharon Epperson joins us right now with this disturbing story, and, sharon, what did the study say about the personal flfgs that goes into the hands of Financial Advisers because it is a lot. It is a lot. Largest gathering of Financial Planners at their annual conference and they did with Td Ameritrade and whats one of the biggest concerns that Financial Advisers have, and 80 of them, and many of them are independent, small fin advisers, say Cyber Security is a major threat, and they are concer about that. But only 30 completely agreed that they are actually prepared to deal with that threat. Wow. So theres a huge gap there. Theres a lot that they need to do, and many of them dont even know where to start. You probably go to your loc Financial Advisers because you trust them, its a face and s sit down with. Right. But at the same tim they may not be equipped and ready to deal with some of these attacks. What questions should you be asking your Financial Advisers about whether your money and information is safe . The first thing is you have to ask what their plan, is just like they have to have a plan for how they are going to invest your portfolio. They should have a plan for how they are going to protect your information, so the first thing that you want to ask is who has who has access to my documents and who has access to my Social Security number and all the account information im provided and then where is in a information stored. Then you n find out what if per chance you decide to leave that Financial Advisers or that Financial Advisers leaves the firm, how do they delete your sensitive date snarks. Are there things you can do to protect yourself while youre working with a Financial Advisers . Love the efficiency of email but never put your Social Security number, your bank and brokerage account numbers unsecure email. Just stop emailing that information and use caution how much information youre providing. You dont necessarily need to put that infn all documents and if they are asking for it call them and ask call them to answer that question, what do they need and talk to someone and make sure that that information is going somewhere secure, and if you are using electronic communication, make sure that its encrypted. One thing that i think weve talked about it when youre on a secure website the way you know and theres a little lock in the corner. That helps you understand its a secure site and transferring files or sending files, you can also do that with an encrypted password. Hate all the passwords that we have to use and theres a reason for it and very important when youre sharing your sensitive financial informati that you use this encrypted password or secure site to do it. Sharon, thank you very much. Sure, my pleasure. U on the money a look at the news in the week ahead sent in a box straight to your door. Can it your budget . No one surface. No one speed. No one way of driving on each and every road. But there is one car that can conquer them all. The mercedesbenz cclass. Five driving modes let you customize the steering, shift points, and suspension to fit the mood youre in. And the road youre on. Local mercedesbenz dealer. Man, im glad aflac pays cash. Aflac isnt Major Medical enough . No whos gonna help cover the holes in their plans . Aflac like rising copays and deductibles. Aflac or help pay the mortgage . Or child care . Aflaaac and everyday expenses . Aflac at aflac. 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