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The American Vacation Revolution is long overdue. Which unicorn startup will disrupt American no-vacation mentality and corporate all-work-and-no-play policies?
America is stuck in a no-vacation land.
With it, the great American summer vacation is on its way out, and the country's huge vacation deficit keeps on going. Each year, Americans fail to use 429 million vacation days, and with those days $160 billion in economic opportunity is lost, according to the U.S. Travel Association. And certainly survey data from Skift -- for summer, international and yearly vacations -- can speak to that.
Like our survey at the start of summer last year, this year for 2015 we asked the same larger question about summer vacations -- in two
