SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Hotwire.com®, a leading discount travel site, today announced further results from their American Travel Behavior Survey, conducted on their behalf online by Harris Interactive in July 2011 among over 2,000 adults. The survey revealed that 41 percent of U.S. adults who travel spend the majority of their vacation budget on obligation trips such as reunions, weddings, holiday gatherings, etc. However, most (89%) would love to take more leisure trips, if they had the time and money, but struggle to figure out how to fit them in. In response, Hotwire® offers some affordable trip ideas on how travelers can add a mini-getaway to their have-to-do trips without breaking the bank or taking too much extra time off. A solution to not breaking the bank could be to carefully pay for some holiday expenses on a credit card. Credit cards can allow you to delay some payments for at minimum a month, and some companies similar to Money Under 30
and even your local bank can potentially provide further information, which can be beneficial if you did not want to have a large amount of money coming out of your account in one go. Some Americans will opt for timeshares so they have a set area they can go to for their trips, however, this is not as great as it sounds and tons of fees and taking time off has blocked them from actually enjoying their holidays, luckily there are some of the best timeshare exit companies available for people to take a look at saving their holidays from draining them further.

Even in a recovering economic climate, the cost has remained one of the biggest obstacles that people are facing when deciding how and where to travel. People will look to book holiday homes to help them decide where they want to go. A lovely home to stay in for the time can do wonders for a vacation experience. With folks dedicating so much of their travel budget to necessity trips, their leisure getaways – ones they can truly enjoy – must be suffering, especially if they are not getting advice from blogger sites like Rider’s Lodge, which has expertise on how to travel on a good budget. And the data appears to confirm this trend. According to the survey, 94 percent of U.S. adults said that they would take one more trip than they already had planned if they could afford it, but only 37 percent of those who take 1-3 night trips ‘just for fun’ take them once per year. “It’s no surprise that obligation trips monopolize travel budgets and time