The days after Thanksgiving have become some of the year's biggest shopping days. Almost everyone knows Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday. They have become a major part of the end-of-year lexicon like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Elf on the Shelf.

The holiday-shopping gauntlet of Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday has another sales event that’s trying to tap people’s wallets: Travel Tuesday.  The first Tuesday after Thanksgiving,

Travel Tuesday, also known as Travel Deal Tuesday, according to online-booking platform Hopper, is "a national shopping event where consumers can expect to see more deals on travel than any other day in the post-Thanksgiving sales period.