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TGF...the OP's main focus was on a certain income class of Americans middle and low which are quickly becoming the same thing.
People with money travel, not saying middle class american's don't, I'm just saying the larger percentage of them spend with what little time they do get are economizing by travelling close to home.
Vacations are expensive. I remember a friend who managed a fast food restraunt, and her husband was a delivery man...they saved for something like two years so they could take their kids to Disney World in Florida, that 1 week cost them $10,000 in 1992. At that point, that was more than 10% of their total income.
My dad made in the mid 80's something like $55K a year, and our most expensive vacation ran about $2k-$3K and that was 1 week in Colorado, a 13 hour drive away.
For the most part, our vacations usually ended up with time split between visiting family and hitting a few sight seeing spots in nearby states.
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