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The 2009 Vacation Deprivation Study findings indicated that more vacations would benefit the workforce. Hawaii Tours suggests that encouraging employees to make use of their vacation days could be more beneficial now than ever before... According to the study, vacations were beneficial to professionals in general. 34% of Americans responded to the survey saying that they came back from vacations with more positive feelings about their jobs and feeling more productive. Moa Mahe of HawaiiTours.com suggests, 'Anything we can do to boost the economy right now would be wonderful.'

Ignoring for a second the therapy-soaked assumption that if you don't get a vacation you've somehow been "deprived" of one—as if there was a vacation there to begin with that someone took away from you—duh! Of course people want vacation time. Of course they think vacations are good for them.

You know how we figured that out? Because every single person we know who's ever negotiated a contract made sure to include stuff about vacation time. Admittedly that's not as methodologically rigorous as a travel industry-commissioned study about how sweet it would be if people gave money to the travel industry, but it's still something.

This study and others like it are plain silly. People try really hard to balance family, work, and travel. For most of us here, staying in one place too long causes a little bit of stir-craziness. Everyone know that; no one needs it explained in scientific-sounding "vacation deprivation" babble.

Everything else aside—and there's lots to talk about in the context of a travel industry that's decided to gamble money on nonsense instead of creating old-fashioned appeals—it's just obnoxious.

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