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Travel, alcohol consumption up, according to TripAdvisor
We've seen travel predictions all over, such as Memorial Day travel will be up with the summer down. Everyone's weighing in. The latest from TripAdvisor is that little has changed in a year. Actually, this isn't TripAdvisor's opinion so much as that of more than 1,800 of its readers in the United States. More than a quarter of those taking vacations plan to make them last from a week to 10 days, with 21 percent upping the ante to 11 days to two weeks. Nearly 20 percent are going for up to three weeks.
Just over half of TripAdvisor's respondents (56 percent) are taking the same amount of vacation they did last year, while 7 percent will spend more time on recreation than they did last summer.
At least these 1,800 respondents are still interested in having a good time. Thirty-six percent of them are more likely to down a bit more booze on the road ... and 28 percent exercise less, with 25 percent eating more junk food. Ice cream is the favorite food (44 percent), and margaritas are the favorite drink (44 percent).
This is only one way that we change our behavior while traveling. Respondents also connect to the internet less (63 percent), watch less television (56 percent) and return fewer calls and e-mails (52 percent).
The top destination this summer is the beach, with 58 percent of respondents ready to get some sand in their toes. Hogging beach chairs will piss them off, though. Thirty-two percent see this behavior while they travel often – nine percent always.
Still have doubts? Not Michele Perry, senior vice president of global communications for TripAdvisor: "Recession be damned, Americans are preparing to pack up the beach bags and boogie boards en masse this summer."
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