Wanted: More Time for Luxury Vacation Rentals
May 12, 2007. Woe is the American traveler who works too hard and doesn't make enough time for vacation. Apparently, that's the majority of us, according to the 2007 National Travel Monitor. Today, we look at the last of five trends highlighted in a recent speech by the founder of the annual travel survey. The Chicago Tribune wrote about the advance peek.
According to a survey of 1,800 travelers, only 23 percent of Americans spend five or more days at a time on vacation, and the bulk of those travelers seem to be retired or semi-retired. Only 23 percent are able to manage weekday vacations of up to four days. The majority of those surveyed – 52 percent – take weekend vacations of less than four days including a Saturday stay.
This sad reality is due to "time poverty," said Peter Yesawich, the developer of the report and chairman and CEO of Yesawich, Pepperdine, Brown & Russell, a PR/marketing/ad agency. Americans may have money, but they don't have the time to enjoy it.
During the speech from which the Chicago Tribune quoted Yesawich, he pulled out a chart with some disturbing facts about the average vacation days per year Americans take compared to other people from other developed nations:
Italy: 42
France: 37
Germany: 35
Britain: 28
Canada: 26
Japan: 25
United States: 13
Come on people, we can do better than that! We here at VacationRental.org propose that every American do his or her patriotic duty and take more vacation days! Book a week at a luxury vacation rental in Florida. Spend a couple of weeks in a cabin in the Sierra Nevada. At the very least, take a four-day weekend in Nantucket.
Remember, vacation is good for the economy, it's good for your family, and it's good for your soul.
