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Cost-conscious 'staycationers' simulate travel.

Publication: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
Publication Date: 31-JUL-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Cost-conscious 'staycationers' simulate travel.(L & E Suburban Life & Entertainment)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Mary Pilon The Wall Street Journal

Karen Ash was getting ready to take a weeklong Japanese vacation.

She planned to buy postcards and souvenirs at a traditional Japanese market, admire bonsai plants and view Japanese films. She figured shed eat ramen, ordering in Japanese.

And shed never leave the Bronx.

Ash, a legal assistant who lives in that New York City borough, called off her plans to travel to Japan this summer. The ballooning cost of airfares, weak dollar-to-yen exchange rate and difficulty saving travel money while keeping pace with bills forced her to rethink her summer plans. So shes determined to...

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