Inability to afford a one-week annual holiday away from home in the EU, 2023

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  2. As greek i can say that so many tourists have seen more of my country than me. I have only been around my hometown and my village which is 10km away from my town. It is like living in a circle with a 10km radius.

  3. Ok, I didn’t expect Romania to be so bad.

    At least not this much of difference with BG, GR and CRO.

  4. I’m suspicious about Romania being on top. I think it’s because Romanians use their holidays to do home improvements for themselves and their friends and family.

  5. [https://www.newsweek.com/americans-ca-no-longer-afford-vacation-1920045](https://www.newsweek.com/americans-ca-no-longer-afford-vacation-1920045)

    It doesn’t seem much better in USA too.

    >Forty-seven percent of all respondents were planning on staying put this summer, avoiding taking a vacation, with 65 percent saying they couldn’t afford it. Among these, Gen Xers were more likely to cite affordability as an issue (67 percent) followed by millennials (62 percent), boomers (61 percent) and Gen Zers (53 percent).

  6. The Hungarian situation is shocking, as the cost of eating and accommodation in Budapest is high, yet earnings are low. They should be overthrowing that useless government.

  7. I refuse to believe that 15% of danes cant afford a vacation. What are they doing? Even students can

  8. I recently saw an offer in Austria for an all-inclusive 5-star hotel in Turkey, including flights, for 350 euros. Who can’t afford that? That’s about 2% of the annual income of a welfare recipient.

  9. As a czech – fuck me we’re rich as hell aren’t we?

  10. Actually in Portugal is cheaper to go to Spain than to do holidays in my own country

  11. I assume they mean the typical holiday in a fancy hotel.

    My parents for instance never did that. Sometimes they visit relatives and friends, but they never go to those hotels. They save money for other things they value more.

    Lots of young people just do backpacking, camping or any other forms of budget holidays. Or do holidays instead of saving money what other generations did.

  12. A week’s holiday away from home is usually a massive saving for me. Cost of living is cheaper than Luxembourg virtually everywhere I go.

  13. Interesting we’re ahead of Denmark despite being worse in per-capita economic data like GDP or wage.

  14. I think holidays have been pushed via marketing too much. It’s much more productised rather than about travel, learning, exploration. 

    I think it’s important to be aware of how other people live, but not necessarily go away every year.

  17. We love to travel because the weather is horrible in Estonia, we have summer like one month/year, we need our vitamin dee.

  19. Now Greece, this is disappointing. We are used to be first in these kind of things. Please, our Messiah PM, help us get first!

  20. In the US you will usually get 14 days annually but no money, so it’s spent talking to people at work.

  21. I can only afford go on holiday in Portugal, my country, because my parents own a beach house. Outside of that, I can’t even book something to Spain unless I go camping.

  22. What is this based on? Just self-reported? Or afford the cost of a typical package deal holiday? Because a “one-week holiday away from home” can vary widely in cost and what it actually is.

  23. Hungarians can afford one week away from home – at their grandparents’ or something.

    Otherwise this should be like 80% or something. But definitely not below 50.

  24. My cousin have a big business in Croatia at and on the sea , she could easily afford travelling but, she wont. If you love the place where you are you dont need any holiday outsideyour country.

  25. Interesting it’s the highest ’emigration’ nations of Europe that can’t afford to go abroad for holidays.

    Used to joke alongside Eastern European co workers, that their ‘holiday’ was coming to a friends rented house and sleeping on the sofa, and working at the friends job for 2 weeks. Some people actually did this at a place I worked at. Though usually more than 2 weeks, lets say university students would do it for the summer.

    British working class did this a few decades ago, but it wasn’t hard work, it was things like harvesting fruits/vegetables, people would do a few hours work in the mornings, and do leisure activities in the afternoon, get paid and live in free accomadation on site.

  27. ROMANIA NO. 1 🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🐅🐅🐅

  28. Don’t know the percentages, ( or where the data comes from – maybe just registered tourist packa bought ) but I just stayed for 1:43 hours at the RO-HU border ( Waze said 56minutes ) last week, The border control had 11 checkbooths open on our way and couldn’t face the number of cars (Hu&Ro guards only pretended they were looking at passports, 3 seconds for 2 persons ). All cars were packed for vacation, and that’s only 2 hours of 1 day on 1 of the 73 possible points of exits from the country. Airports are full non-stop, etc. How can 60% not travel at all ?

  29. Europe is poor. Just go to any known European turistic city. It is full of americans and asians from Japan, China, Singapore, Taiwan for which Europe is cheap because they are much richer and with higher income than Europeans now.

  31. Ce concedii visați, la muncă toată lumea și în weekend la mall, ca cam atât îl duce capu pe român

  32. Based on my experience, I expect a camping renaissance. For a price of a weekend in a hotel in Ireland, you can get all the equipment you need for a family of four.

  34. By home so they mean your own country / region or just taking time off and not going anywhere and chilling out in the back garden?

    Holidaying in Ireland for example is way more expensive than going to Spain or similar destinations. The distance isn’t really the issue financially.

    I would assume that also applies in quite a few other Northern European countries too.

  35. Damn, living a shitty life outside EU, yet living better than 60% of Romanians and 30% of EU in general is depressing since we can’t even join EU…

  36. Interesting the countries that can afford are the ones with the shittiest weather

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