Developers are hoping that the water parks can transform seasonal destinations into year-round vacation options.
KICKING BACK IN KENTUCKY -- The Greater Kentucky Convention and Visitors Bureau is offering a handful of quick vacation options.
But in recent years, religious travelers have expanded their vacation options, though traditional trips like an Israel tour or volunteering with a group like American Jewish World Service remain popular.
A recent Web search of vacation options for this group, which makes up nearly a third of United States families with children, revealed a host of challenges and limited choices.
Her surprise was contagious when she realized -- after the franc-to-dollar conversion -- that tuition and housing costs were a remarkable travel bargain in comparison with other French vacation options.
These companies are gambling that travelers like Ms. Virgil will like the idea of a vacation that hinges on suspense, and that they will want to ditch predictability (and a slog themselves through vacation options) for mystery, something often lacking in today's travel landscape.
Meanwhile, as travelers search for more affordable vacation options, budget-oriented tour operators like the Australian-based Intrepid Travel, which keeps tour costs down by using public transportation, staying in guesthouses run by locals and camping, have been seeing a surge in business.
Rohmer turns her tentative visits to family and friends in search of new vacation options into an ethnographic study of French leisure habits as well as an Impressionist celebration of the natural habitats and architectural glories around which they're organized.
Camilla Sands started her tour company, Simply San Miguel (www.simplysanmiguel.com), with some 15 different vacation options for visitors to San Miguel de Allende in the Sierra Madres of central Mexico, but she says it is her Real Estate Curious Tour that gets the most bookings.
But when researching vacation options online recently, she came across a deal too good to pass up: a five-day trip to Bermuda, including nonstop airfare from New York, with a large suite (complete with kitchen) right on the beach for about $800 a person over the week of Christmas.
