However, leisure travel, Mr. Bowers added, seems to be "holding up pretty well," although other analysts said that some leisure travelers had delayed booking some trips this summer because they might be awaiting expected discounts and promotions from desperate hotels.
They are delaying booking in the hope of nabbing cheap, last-minute deals.They certainly seem to be spending less.
In addition to this, the new urgency classification as well as "gaming" and "delayed booking" could also affect monitored waiting time.
Cases can be given a higher priority to secure an earlier slot ("gaming") [ 16], or requests for surgery can be postponed to avoid cancellation of an elective case ("delayed booking").
In May 2013, the company found evidence that two former fixed-income traders, who have since left, had been delaying the booking of, and improperly allocating, trades – a practice known as cherrypicking.
For example, in response to delays in booking intake exercise stress tests required to initiate an exercise program, some CR programs no longer require a stress test prior to CR initiation in low-risk patients or use a six-minute walk test.
As in other studies, however, parents did not make the decision to contact a healthcare professional lightly, 29 30 38 39 and the most common reason for delaying in booking an appointment with a GP was concern about attending with non-specific symptoms and wasting the GP's time.
Second, the urban resident's options included either delaying consulting or booking an appointment, despite believing symptoms to be self-limiting, with a view to cancelling later if symptoms improved.
When your company has one of the best-selling products in the history of your industry, it must be mildly annoying to delay the booking of the sales bonanza because of an accounting quirk.
