Vacations Aren’t the Same Without Your Phone
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iStockThinkstock(NEW YORK) — Used to be that people were advised never to leave home without traveler’s checks when they went on vacation.
Hardly anyone carries traveler’s checks anymore but they do carry cellphones and TripAdvisor says 90 percent of vacationers will use their mobile devices, no ifs, ands or buts about it.
As for what they’re doing on their phones, the TripAdvisor survey finds that nearly three in four need it for navigation purposes, 62 percent consult their phones for restaurants and over half will find things to do while vacationing.
Of course, in this age of having to be connected to the home base, 62 percent of people on vacation check their emails with half that number claiming to see what’s happening at work.
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