Vacations Now a Guilty Pleasure

Aloha Kakou:

We've heard the classic excuses for not taking a vacation. Usually those reasons are some variation on the "no time, no money" theme. Guilt is not usually one of those excuses. Until now, that is. It seems some people are cutting back or downplaying their vacation plans because they feel guilty that they can afford a trip right now while others cannot. While we in Hawaii did see a variant of that after 9/11 when the Japanese felt it was not proper to visit the US following that catastrophe, usually westbound travellers harbor no such feelings. It seems, however, that the current economic crisis may have sensitized Americans, if the following article is to be believed.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/02/24/economy.vacations/index.html