Study finds 40% of Americans have not holidayed in two years

A recent survey of Americans found that 40 per cent of them have gone two years without a vacation.

Travel Insurance News - 01/07/2010

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Mondial Assistance polled a thousand Americans about their holiday history and found 40 per cent of respondents have not had a holiday in two years. That is an increase of six percentage points from the same survey performed a year ago. Thirty-three per cent of those polled said that taking vacations is very important but respondents in lower income brackets said they were not certain they would be able to take a holiday this year.

Ron Humphrey, a professor of management with Virginia Commonwealth University, supports the idea that vacations are important, saying that workers who do take holidays are less likely to end up burned out. Three-quarters of the people surveyed felt that a vacation is a vital benefit of a full-time job.

Those earning more than $75,000 per year had the greatest tendency to voice confidence about taking a holiday. Respondents with annual family incomes below $25,000 were the least confident that they would be taking vacations. The survey also discovered that those taking vacations tend to be keeping things simple and are choosing destinations they can reach by car.

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