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With summer officially started, 58 percent of American families say they are not taking a summer vacation.
Seven percent of that number say they are delaying vacation plans.
The primary reason is because of personal financial concerns, a nationwide Harris Interactive survey by Colonial Williamsburg Foundation reported last week.
Fifty percent say family budgets for non-essential expenses have influenced summer vacation plans, more than double the concern cited over heightened terrorism alerts (12 percent, great deal of influence) and public health threats (11 percent).
Concerns about the economy, particularly job security, have a modest influence (17 percent and 14 percent, respectively).
“This survey is provocative because it tells us that Americans are much more concerned about their personal financial situations than previously suspected,”
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