What does it take to feed a family of four in today’s economy? Just two separate stays at any Choice Hotels location in the Choice Privileges program. This summer, when travelers stay just two separate times with check-in from May 20 through August 5, 2010 at any participating Choice brand hotel, they’ll receive enough Choice Privileges points to redeem for a $50 restaurant gift card.*

And this added value should come as a welcomed surprise for most travelers this year, as more than three quarters of U.S. active travelers who are planning to take at least one leisure trip by July of this year (56 percent) said they plan to spend less or the same amount on leisure travel services as they did last year, according to the February 2010 travelhorizons(TM) survey co-authored by Ypartnership and the U.S. Travel Association. As usual, getting more for your money seems to be as popular as ever among today’s travelers.

Frequent flyers can improve their chances at landing their preferred window or aisle seat with MySeatFinder, an online travel application that does all of the legwork for them. For a limited time, MySeatFinder is offering new members a free 30-day trial.

Steve Gordon and Tim Hadden developed MySeatFinder in the days when Gordon, a Cisco executive, was flying back and forth from his San Jose home to Orange County to facilitate Cisco’s acquisition of Linksys. Gordon coveted seat11B on his regular flight (exit row + aisle = leg room!) and lamented to his friend that it often took several calls to the airline to land 11B. The pair, who had worked in information systems at Northwest Airlines years earlier, started brainstorming ways technology could come to his rescue, and MySeatFinder was born.