This is significant because budget once again ranked as the number one factor for travelers when deciding on a summer vacation location.”Ĭarnicelli also noted that consumers book travel and comparison shop using digital and mobile channels to a much greater extent than ever before - and that conventional wisdom around travel bookings has changed. travelers are dropping their budgets by 20 percent to an average to $2,679…. “The shorter travel durations are explained by sizeable decreases in travelers’ budgets this year,” said Chris Carnicelli, CEO, Generali Global Assistance North America, in a written release. economy and produced an estimated 278,000 direct and indirect jobs and $11 billion in additional income for employees.īut the somewhat disappointing other side of that vacation coin is that family vacation budgets, worldwide, will be down even though the number of Americans planning to take a family vacation this summer is up over last year. Those 1.2 days last year delivered a $37 billion impact to the U.S. The good news, according to the same report, is that Americans are starting to take more time off, and this year, American workers are expected to take 16.8 days of vacation, up from 16.2 last year. That spending would have supported 1.8 million American jobs and generated $70 billion in additional income for American workers,” the report noted. economy $236 billion in 2016, due to lost spending. Two years ago, according to a recent report from Project Time Off, that number had fallen to 15.Īnd while one might think all those workers contributing an extra five days of labor a year would be good news for economic productivity, it actually put a dent in consumer spending.
In 2017, Americans take fewer vacation days than previous generations did. Twenty or so years ago, the average number of vacation days taken per year for the average worker was 20.
(Maybe there’s something to the summertime blues after all.) BBQs and pool parties remain family favorites, and teenagers still have summer jobs that they don’t like very much.Īnd families still take summer vacations, even if the time spent on those vacations has gotten shorter. Summer in 2017 is quite a different place these days, even if it bears some uncanny resemblance to the summer of 51 years ago.
Those assistants can also be called upon to tell those consumers a joke if the summertime blues are really, really getting them down. Today 90 percent of homes have air conditioning in some form, and consumers can instruct their AI-powered voice-activated assistant to adjust their thermostat (up or down) at will. homes were mechanically cooled that summer.įast-forward 51 years. Then again, when “Summertime Blues” was first written, residential air conditioning was still four to five years from really catching on en masse and only 10 percent of U.S. Corcoran, who (according to the lyrics of the song) had a pretty terrible but unspecified summer job.
Long days, pool parties and outdoor BBQs seem to us to be more than adequate cures for whatever ails anyone in the summer, even for Mr. In 1966 Eddie Corcoran sang, “There ain’t no cure for the summertime blues,” which is a rather dark pronouncement of an otherwise pretty cheerful time of year.
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