joining me now is steve deluca, vice president and publisher of "departures" magazine. the magazine exclusively for american express, platinum and centurian card members. steve, great to have you on the program. >> thanks for having me. >> wonderful to see you. so you have a fairly high-end readership and audience that took some 19 million business trips last year. tell me what you're hearing from that customer today about luxury travel. are things back? >> things are definitely back. as you said, the american express platinum and centurian card members who we serve, they love to travel. 98% of them actually have a passport, which for an american consumer that's extremely high. only about 20% of all americans have a passport. our leaders love to travel. and one thing that we're really seeing is that they want to travel afar again. during the recession, they pulled back a little bit. you know, travel a little closer to home. what we're seeing is that they want to go to far-flung destinations like asia, where there has been an explosion of luxury offers. >> so how is the h