Stress-related Travel?

People travelling to escape today's stress - Northumberland Today - Ontario, CA

Travel may be seen by some as a luxury item, but based on the experience of some local companies, people are still treating them as necessities.

"We were a little apprehensive," Marlin travel's manager, Jim Knight, said during a recent interview about the state of the travel industry. But the market hasn't dropped, he said.

Last fall was steady. Big ticket items like a 25-day Australian tour still went ahead even with fewer people than "we would have liked," Knight said.

This year, however, started very strong with a 15-to-20% increase over the same time in 2008 comparing statistics from Marlin Travel's offices in Cobourg, Port Hope and Bowmanville during January and February, Knight p>Families were still booking March break getaways and winter vacations possibly with the rationale that they needed to "get away" from the rising stress of the economic situation, he said.

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