Questão 1560517

Text related to questions 46 to 49.

Are You Ready for a Staycation?

Jennifer Merin on Apr 26, 2019

Regularly scheduled escape from stress is essential these days, and one easy and affordable way to seek relief is the staycation. What is it? A hometown tourism itinerary that you set for yourself, including a hotel stay, dine around and visits to local tourist attractions that satisfy your special interests.

In times of restrained travel budgets, hometown tourism is an excellent way to escape everyday humdrum and stress. You can make plans for yourself or assemble a group of convivial friends to treat yourselves to a dream vacation in your own city.

Does that sound like a silly idea? Well, it’s not. Not at all. Just think about it, and you’ll see the benefits.

Right from the start, hometown tourism is an appealing solution for getaway vacationers who are budget challenged. You eliminate airfares and other big transportation expenditures that are the major cost boosters of most vacations.

If you really want to have the feeling of full escape from your daily routine, you can usually find discount deals for local hotel or motel nights, or check into an affordable bed and breakfast, or make luxury lodging your main hometown tourism splurge.

As for your daily itinerary, you can arrange a costeffective tour that takes you to your town’s premiere attractions and allows you to discover hidden treasures that you never knew were in your neck of the woods or you can go on a hunt to rediscover nostalgia-filled places that you haven’t visited for ages.

But whatever your particular approach to accommodations and itinerary, it is essential that you treat your hometown staycation as though you were really taking a trip to someplace ‘foreign.’ That means doing quite a bit of research, which should begin with a phone call to your local tourism authority or convention and visitor bureau, and online browsing their Websites. If travel counselors are available, ask to speak with them. It’s up to you whether or not you tell them you’re from their town, but I’d suggest that you approach them as though you’re not.

You can schedule a staycation three or four times a year and return to your daily life fully refreshed. If you take several staycations per year, you won’t be tempted to cram everything into one short ‘trip,’ which could make your ‘escape’ quite stressful. Keep a scrapbook or journal to remind yourself how much fun you’ve had.

Adapted from: https://www.arcamax.com/homeandleisure/travel/jennifermerin/s-2201785 Access on April 26^th, 2019

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