cbs news travel editor peter greenberg with how events this big impact the travel. any time. >> the super bowl, the olympicsment any time you have a city bidding. the rates go up. >> not just a little bit. >> no. >> for example, in tampa the hotel roommates are averaging 132% over what they would normally. in charlotte 121%. that's not unusual. but you have to dissect the numbers. meaning they thought they would have 50,000 rooms in tampa, now they're nearing 90,000 room nights. they're claiming they're sold out. actually they're not. just like the olympics, there's the difference between a booked room and blocked room. we're talking about blocks of rooms that the rnc or dnc got. if you want to book a room, it's four-night minimum sometimes at $800 a night. >> how are they able to charge so high? >> because they can. it's a law of supply and demand. if you do a comparison, one day after the republican convention in tampa, the rates go off a cliff. the same thing happens in charlotte, which is normal. >> is there anything wrong with this sm. >> the thing is in terms

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well, cbs news travel editor peter greenberg says not everyone. he's in las vegas this morning. ng on for 24 years. most of the public doesn't even know what goes on. imagine 4,000 people crowding into every ballroom in the bellagio. ceos, hotel owners, airline presidents, cruise ship owners and about 1,800 travel agent power people, including ministers of tourism and ambassadors. and what are they doing? they're buying and selling travel. and by the end of this week, they're doing four-minute meetings each. think about this, 350,000 individual meetings. and when that's over, about $500 million in travel will be sold. >> so, peter, it's described like a speed dating, if you will, with these ceos sitting down with travel advisers. that has to be an awfully effective sales pitch in a four-minute meeting. >> reporter: it is a very effective sales pitch because they know each other to begin with. they know their clients, and therefore, they come with a specific list, an agenda of what they want, and people are paying a substantial amount of money to do that, to travel. >> who are the

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." >>> and travel editor peter greenberg will have five tips for flying with your pets during these hot months. all of that later on "cbs this morning." for now, that will do it for the "cbs morning news" on this tuesday. as always, appreciate you watching. i'm terrell brown. take care, everybody. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> good morning everyone. it is tuesday august 7th. time now is 429. the fire at the chevron will find areas out this morning parade last night you considered all over the bay area. there were explosions and fire. this was shortly after 6:00 p.m.. caltrans put toll takers that on the san rea raphael toll bridge >>> within the next 30 to 45 minutes we should be escorted inside the property where a chevron spokesperson will give us an updated on what's going tappan ford after last night's incident. the good news for commuters is that they would be able to travel as normal. that is a eight different from yesterday parade you could take a look at this massive blaze. it started at chevron's refinery shortly after 6:00 p.m. yesterday. it quick

cbs news travel editor peter greenberg is here with five things to know about traveling with your petsause there are a lot of airline employees who are also pet lovers who are being more responsible, yeah. >> so, what times of year should you fly and not fly with your pet? >> it all depends on the extremes of temperatures, extreme heat, extreme cold. whether it's under 35 degrees or over 85 degrees, your dog should not fly. it's not just the temperature where you're departing from or where you're going, but the temperature where your flight may be connecting, and that's where the deaths occur when you leave the pets on the tarmac for hours when they're connecting flights. a lot of times, the airlines will not fly your pets. there is a temperature moratori moratorium, especially in the summer, where they will not accept the pets to fly. >> so, there's no temperature down in the cargo hold? >> that's a different situation. that's a situation where you have to have a pressurized cargo department, temperature-controlled, but you have to make sure that you tell the flight attendants and the

it's also another attempt by american to bypass other more costly online travel agents and peter greenberg this new system works. peter, fantastic to have you with us. break it down. >> it's one more opportunity for the airline to raise additional revenue. it's another distribution channel for them. but it gets to the definition of terms of what is really a preferred seat. >> which is what i was about to ask. what is a preferred seat? delta has economy comfort. is it all the same thing? >> every airline is different, every definition is different. sometimes they'll define a preferred at by how close it is to the front. a middle seat near the front is a preferred seat sometimes. >> maybe if you can get off the plane first. at least more than the people way in back. >> you have a differential between $9 and $30 to buy the quote-unquote preferred seats. if you go on the seating charts of the airlines shl, that's whee shock value comes in. >> are airlines forcing consumers to purchase the preferred seats and holding back available seating? >> you've answered the question. they're doing both. t

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. >>> cbs news travel editor peter greenberg joins us at the table. edicted that this could happen. >> it wasn't a difficult prediction to anticipate. it happens every four years. they overbuild, overcharge, gouge, scare people away. 300,000 people who would be in london didn't show up. that's the regular tourist crowd. you can do the loss of planning and see what we're talking about. >> this happens every single time. they tell everybody to stay away. >> why is no one here? happens in political conventions as well. if you're a city planner and you're bidding for one of these and looking into it, what's your recommendation? >> take a look for the past couple of olympics. when you look at the numbers, you're taking a look at budgets that got out of control. in montreal it took 30 years to pay off a debt that they incurred in 1976 for the olympics. in japan their budget was so bad they destroyed their records afterwards they were so embarrassed. they were destroyed. look at these numbers, 2.4 billion in atlanta. reasonable. 6.8 billion in sydney. in athe

cbs news travel editor peter greenberg is here with how events this big impact travel. anytime there's something major. >> the super bowl, the olympics. any time a city is bidding for something like this, the rates go up, and way up. >> and not just a little bit. >> no. for example, in tampa, the hotel room rates are averaging 132% over what they would normally be this time of the year. in charlotte, about 121%. that's not unusual. but you have to start to dissect the numbers, meaning they thought they were going to have 50,000 rooms in tampa, then 70,000, now it's to 90,000. they are claiming they are all sold out. actually, they are not. just like the olympics, there's a difference between a booked room and a blocked room. there are blocks of rooms that are coming out now. but still they are getting a four-night minimum to book a room right now at $800 a night. >> how are they able to charge so high? >> because they can. it's the law of supply and demand. but if you do a comparison, go one day after the republican convention in tampa, and the rates go up. and the same

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well, cbs news travel editor peter greenberg says not everyone. and he's in las vegas this morning. public doesn't even know what goes on. imagine 4,000 people crowding into every ballroom in the bellagio. ceos, hotel owners, cruiseship owners, ambassadors, ministers of tourism and over 1,800 top travel agents doing what, buying and selling travel. and by the end of this week, they're doing four-minute meetings each. think about this, 350,000 individual meetings. and when that's over, about $500 million in travel will be sold. >> this-in those four-minute meetings, how is business conducted so effectively so fast? >> reporter: it's speed dating, indeed, but the clients know the agents, the agents know the clients and the clients know the providers. they come in with a list, an agenda of what their clients want, and they're spending money. even in this bad economy and in an election year, which traditionally people don't travel. >> and we understand they're spending money on buying islands, things like that. >> reporter: buying islands. they've spent $10 million on the version galact

peter greenberg will look at america's fastest, highest and scariest roller coasters.n't get into roller coasters. i'm a big, big chicken. all we can say is happy friday. i don't know if you enjoyed it as much as i did having you two at the table. >> pleasure being here. >> go head, mr. brown. how was it for you? >> it was a blast. i should not be feeling too bad when gayle says we'll call you next time. >> i call. nice to see you both. that does it for us. as we leave you, we'll look back at the week that was. in the meantime, have a great weekend. happy friday. >> it was one against two tore a while. now it's two against two. we're going to bring a message to the country. here's how you get the country back on track. >> the battle for the white house got especially nasty with both sides throwing hey makers at each other. >> he's going to let the big banks write their own rules. unchain wall street. they're going to put y'all back in chains. >> mr. president, take your campaign, the division, and anger and hate back to chicago. >> did you write those words yourself? >

. >> peter greenberg, cbs news travel editor is here for the best picks of the roller coasters aroundhe drop. peter, good morning. >> you categorized had for us. the best is incline and descent which is hills. >> this is in sandusky, ohio. >> it goes up to 310 feet. but here's the crazy part. it's a 45-degree incline and then when you drop, you're dropping at speeds of 93 miles an hour. there you go. >> there's the hill. >> watch out. >> it's hard to imagine that is not the scariest roller coaster. >> it's not because it's sustained speed. it's when you have the twists and the turns. >> there is one on your list that is the scariest. >> that's up in ontario, canada. this is a gig a coaster. look at this thing. this is an 80-degree drop. i mean, would you go on that? >> i'm looking for the safest roller coaster but that's a different segment. >> up 306 feet. try not to have any meals before this, please. i don't want to be sitting behind you. >> that looks fun. >> you've talked about best structure. what does that mean? >> this is the bizarro in new england. it doesn't win awards for h