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Re:Tourism Is Overwhelming the World's Top Destinations by majewsky on Monday August 12, 2019 @10:53AM (#20675931)
One week (or maybe 10 days) in Thailand or in Egypt is a perfectly regular trip for a German vacationer.
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Re:Tourism Is Overwhelming the World's Top Destinations by rconti on Monday August 12, 2019 @01:35PM (#20677780)
Yeah, because they have the luxury of more vacation time.

I'm sure as hell not going to apologize for maximizing the limited time I have off work.

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Re:Tourism Is Overwhelming the World's Top Destinations by dagw on Monday August 12, 2019 @10:59AM (#20676000)
Huh? All the Scandinavians flying to Thailand every winter disagree with you.
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Re:Tourism Is Overwhelming the World's Top Destinations by icebraining on Monday August 12, 2019 @11:50AM (#20676534)
Maybe the parent poster meant the "week or less"? I'm guessing Scandinavians take longer trips on average.
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Re:Tourism Is Overwhelming the World's Top Destinations by dagw on Monday August 12, 2019 @05:31PM (#20680241)
I have no idea what the average trip is, but going to Thailand for a week is hardly uncommon.
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Re:Tourism Is Overwhelming the World's Top Destinations by buboard on Monday August 12, 2019 @10:50AM (#20675907)
how so? they do that every summer
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Re:Tourism Is Overwhelming the World's Top Destinations by Sargos on Monday August 12, 2019 @11:55AM (#20676586)
Are you claiming that Europeans don't take 1 week vacations? Do you have any data to back up that almost absurd claim?
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Re:Tourism Is Overwhelming the World's Top Destinations by mattlutze on Monday August 12, 2019 @01:03PM (#20677395)
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

Apparently, in 2017, European Council researchers found 26.7 % of trips made by EU-28 country residents were trips outside of their home country, and of those, the average trip lasted 8.4 nights.

So, for Europeans traveling farther than domestically, trips averaged longer than a week. For domestic trips (73.3% of all trips), average duration was 3.9 nights.

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