According to the 2011National Association of Realtors Investment and Vacation Home Buyers Survey, vacation-home buyers in 2010 had an average age of 49, and 34% planned to use the property as a primary residence sometime in the future.
You're Not Alone Msnbc.com reports on some recently released surveys on vacation preferences and other travel-related trivia.
From 2005 to 2008, she kept her research position with the British Antarctic Survey and used her vacation time to race.
According to AAA's 2007 Annual Vacation Costs Survey, a family of four could expect to spend $650 a day there on food and lodging, making it the least affordable state in the country — and that doesn't even take into account Hawaii's gas prices, consistently among the nation's highest.
This may have resulted in selection bias as busy people and those on vacation during the survey might not have responded to the survey.
"It's an in-depth survey, and we felt a vacation day would be a good incentive to get workers to complete it".
Erin Krause, a spokeswoman for the travel Web site Expedia.com, which publishes an annual Vacation Deprivation online survey, said, "Americans are not using all of their vacation days and it seems to be getting worse".
About 11% of all US home transactions in 2012 were vacation-home sales, according to the 2013 Investment and Vacation Home Buyers Survey by the National Association of Realtors.
The travel website Expedia.com, which has good reason to get people to use their vacation time, reported survey results showing that Americans leave an average of two vacation days on the table each year while many Europeans use all their days.
After all, according to Keith Bellows, Editor-in-Chief of National Geographic Traveler, a passport is as good -- if not better -- than a diploma and the Wagner Group backed this up with a survey (as reported in Family Vacation Critic) that says children who travel to educational places are more likely to have higher grades and earn 12% more money annually in their future careers.
The number of physicians who responded to the questionnaire (62%) was somewhat low, because many were still on summer vacation during the survey and consequently never completed it.
