THINGS THAT ARE BOOMING
A: It’s scheduled to take off in 2029.
Q: What is United Airlines’ new investment in a supersonic jet?
A: This theme park just announced a $500 million expansion.
Q: What is Dollywood?
A: Miley Cyrus, Cirque du Soleil, giant July 4th fireworks display.
Q: What is live entertainment returning to Las Vegas?
VALUE PROPOSITIONS
A: A free beer to the first 200,000 adults who reply via this website when 70% of Americans are vaccinated.
Q. What is the Anheuser-Busch promotion?
A: Fifty-eight cents.
Q: What is the new price of a first-class stamp as proposed by the USPS?
A: To subsidize 5G network technology, big trade-in discounts on the newest phones.
Q: What are AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile offering customers who extend long-term unlimited data plan contracts?
SUPPLY CHAINS
A: Sorry, no rides today at Kings Dominion and Busch Gardens in Virginia.
Q: What are staff shortages causing reduced hours at theme parks?
A: Soaring price tags on new cars, vacation rental car rates up to $700/week in Hawaii.
Q: What is a slowdown in semiconductor production plus trade wars on top of a pandemic?
A: Oat milk, cups, trays, flavored syrups, and some baked goods.
Q: What are product shortages at Starbucks?
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
A: Likely delayed until 2030, President Andrew Jackson and the U.S. Bureau of Printing and Engraving.
Q. What is replacing the old $20 bill with the new Harriet Tubman $20 bill?
A: United Airlines, American Airlines, and Southwest Airlines.
Q. What are three airlines not putting booze on flights this summer?
A: $6.73 per gallon for regular unleaded gasoline.
Q: What is America’s most expensive gas station, in Mendocino, Calif.?
SIZE UP THE DESTINATION
A: This DMO has an online store called “Shop the Rock.”
Q: What is the Little Rock Convention & Visitors Bureau?
A: Louis Armstrong International Airport serves the destination that has this nickname.
Q: What is The Big Easy, New Orleans?
A: On the landmark arch over Virginia Street in Downtown Reno, these seven words appear in neon.
Q: What is “The Biggest Little City in the World.”
TALKING TECH
A: Silicon Valley’s largest employer gets staff push back on policy requiring part-time return to HQ in September.
Q: What is Apple?
A: Uber Media, the location data company recently rebranded as UM, was acquired by this company.
Q: What is Near, the data intelligence company?
A: A new paid subscription service from this social media channel is currently in trials outside the US.
Q: What is Twitter Blue?