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Traveling isn't always fun, but planning a trip isn't exactly a form of punishment. Still, stress is a seemingly unavoidable aspect of travel.
With that in mind, Orbitz recently took a closer look at the stress brought on by holiday travel (Thanksgiving to the New Year), examining the different levels based on gender, employment and parental status.
The Art of Stress-Free Travel study reveals many intriguing trends, including that women are more stressed initially when traveling, but men return from trips with more stress.
Specifically, women are 23 percent more likely than men to be stressed while planning a trip, while men are 19 percent more likely than women to be stressed after a trip.
What's more, full-time employees were 82 percent more likely to be stressed when returning to reality after a trip than those self-employed travelers.
During a trip, women were roughly 24 percent more stressed than their male counterparts.
And when it comes to age, the Orbitz study reveals that younger travelers tend to stress over the details more often. Millennial travelers (18-34) were more stressed than those travelers age 35 and up during planning.
Perhaps the most unsurprising of the study's findings was that travelers without children tend to be less stressed than those with children. Travelers with children experience the most stress following a trip, being 56 percent more likely to return home stressed than those without children.
As far as minimizing stress during your next trip, Orbitz offers several tips based on its study.
In addition to creating a trip schedule and booking in advance, travelers are encouraged to read plenty of online customer reviews and avoid work-related activities during their time away.
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