Travelers Say They'd Give Up Sex to Get an Extra Day of Vacation
Sex in exchange for vacation (Photo: Thinkstock)
So what would you give up for a week to get an extra day (a day!) of vacation? According to a new Expedia Vacation Deprivation survey released Wednesday, a whopping 24 percent of global workers said they could live without sex. Even easier to give up: junk food (54 percent of workers say that they could take it or leave it) and alcohol (48 percent). But people weren’t as willing to give up a shower (9 percent) or their smartphone (21 percent).
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Give up my phone? No way! (Photo: Thinkstock)
The study was part of Expedia’s 14th annual look at vacation habits around the globe, polling 7,855 employed adults across 24 countries in Asia Pacific, Europe, North America, and South America.
Some of the stats weren’t surprising: Americans get the short end of the stick when it comes to vacation time, and they don’t take everything they receive. We get, on average, 15 days off and only use 14 days, while the Danish, French, German, and Spanish rake it in with a whopping 30 — and they take all 30, too, thank you very much.
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According to Expedia, there’s vacation inequality among travelers around the globe (Photo: Thinkstock)
But take heart: the numbers aren’t all bad. In fact, we’re up over last year, when American workers were offered 14 days and used 12.
And we’re doing better than those workers halfway around the world in Thailand, who get a meager 11 days off, on average, and only use 10 of them. Or how about South Koreans, who only took only 7 of 15 available days off? Hey, time to take a vacation!
One sad fact emerged in the survey: even when people go on vacation, they can’t stop working: on average, 25 percent of world travelers check work email one or more times a day when they’re on holiday.
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Email-addicted travelers just can’t stop — even on vacation. (Photo: Thinkstock)
Expedia’s study also examined the emotional impact of going on vacation, which is so important to people worldwide that 56 percent of workers say the chance for more vacation time would motivate them to switch jobs.
According to John Morrey, vice president and general manager of Expedia.com, “Somewhere between eighty and ninety percent of people worldwide say that vacations make them feel happier, better rested, closer to their family, less stressed, and more relaxed.”
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