Americans Fail To Take More Than Half Billion Available Vacations Days
Photo Credit: Overworked and under-vacationed. Flickr / Andrés Nieto Porras
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Besides the health issues involved with overwork, the U.S. tourism economy could benefit a lot more if Americans could take more vacations.
Americans are working even more and taking even less holidays this year, according to Expedia as part of its 2013 Vacation Deprivation study, an annual analysis of vacation habits among 8,535 employed adults across 24 countries and five continents.
So much so that Americans are now treating vacations as a luxury rather than a right: Over the past year, Americans could have taken 14 days of vacation and took 10, leaving 4 days on the table, twice as many as the year prior. There are currently just o
