Bring your laptop on holiday
June 12th, 2007
Next time you book your vacation rental holiday, you may want to check whether or not they have a computer or laptop with internet connectivity available for your use.
A recent survey conducted by AP-Ipsos revealed that 1 out of every 5 vacationer brings their laptop with them on their vacation. 80% bring their mobile phone.
Nineteen percent said they worked on their vacation even though they were technically off. Twenty percent said they checked work messages like voice mail, and another 15 percent said they called to check in.
Overall, about six in 10 in the said they were planning a vacation trip in the next year, with men a bit likelier than women to express that expectation. About half said they had taken one in the last year.
Seven in 10 women and half of men said they had read a book on their last vacation. About three in four men, and six in 10 women, said they had read a newspaper.
The AP-Ipsos poll was conducted from May 15 to 17 2007 and included telephone interviews with 1,000 randomly chosen adults. It has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points