Make sure your 2008 vacation home marketing includes an international outreach effort.

More travelers from abroad are coming to America this year.

The same weak U.S. dollar that's enticing foreigners to buy vacation homes in America will also give foreign tourists more travel for their bucks.

And travel bargain hunters typically look to vacation homes for extra value.

According to Destination Hotels & Resorts, 99 percent of customers who have stayed in a vacation rental would stay there again.

The Travel Industry Association forecasts that foreign travel expenditures in the U.S. will amount to nearly $99 billion in 2008, up more than 7 percent over 2007.

Domestic travel spending should come in at nearly $680 billion, but that's only a 5 percent increase over 2007.

Four percent more foreigners will visit the U.S. in 2008, compared to 2007, but the number of domestic travelers will increase by only 2 percent, according to the Travel Industry Association.

Tourists who want both home-like amenities and the best stay for the money often look to the vacation home rental market to fulfill both needs.

Travel guru Ed Perkins says in 2008, vacation rentals offer the best antidote to rising hotel rates and the Internet makes finding travel housing easy.

Published: January 17, 2008

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Broderick Perkins parlayed a career in old-school journalism into a contemporary digital news service that really hits home. The award-winning consumer journalist, originally from Wilmington, DE, is founder, publisher and executive editor of the bootstrap DeadlineNews Group, a Silicon Valley-based editorial content and consulting service specializing in residential real estate, consumer news and related editorial consulting services. The DeadlineNews Group includes the website, DeadlineNews.com, offering real estate editorial content and consulting services, and its back shop, the Deadline Newsroom, an open house on news that really hits home. Perkins obtained his formal journalism education from University of Delaware and a journalism boot camp, the Institute of Journalism Education at the University of California-Berkeley. He went on to 20 years of service as a daily newspaper journalist at the Wilmington, DE News Journal and San Jose, CA Mercury News. Perkins covered housing on the San Jose Mercury News reporting team which earned a General News Reporting Pulitzer Prize in 1989 for coverage of the Loma Prieta earthquake. He has also produced real estate, consumer and small business content for the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, RealtyTimes.com, Nolo.com, Better Homes and Gardens, the National Association of Realtors, Homestore/Move and Intuit/Quicken among more than three dozen publications. In addition to managing the DeadlineNews Group, Perkins most recently served as chief editorial consultant for Nolo's Essential Guide To Buying Your First Home, Nolo, and writes real estate television scripts for RealtyTimes.com.