A Y Partnership index forecasts that the gray cloud over US travel may be about to pass. A recent poll, The Traveler Sentiment IndexSM (April) reveals a significant increase in perceived money available for travel (82.4 in April 2010, up from 70.3 in April 2009), suggesting that consumers are now more confident about their personal finances and may, therefore, be more inclined to make discretionary expenditures on travel services than they were one year ago. Three of the six variables from which the index is derived (interest in travel, time available to travel and the aforementioned money available for travel) are increasing, while the remaining three (affordability of travel, perceived safety of travel, and quality of travel services) are declining. The greatest decrease was observed in the perceived affordability of travel (down from 118.6 in April 2009 to 103.5 in April 2010), signaling that recent efforts by many travel service suppliers to increase fares and rates have not been lost on the traveling public.