An annual vacation can cut a person’s risk of heart attack by 50 percent. middle aged men at high risk for coronary heart disease who take frequent annual vacations are 21% less likely to die of any cause and 32% less likely to die of their coronary heart disease.
Homemakers who vacation only once every six years or less have almost twice
the risk of developing myocardial infarction or coronary death than do homemakers who take two or more vacations a year.
Travelers rate their overall health one full point higher (on a scale of 1 to 5) while on vacation. They also get three times more deep sleep after vacation.
Women who take more vacations are more satisfied with their marriages.
That may be because:
At least four out of ten travelers feel more romantic on vacation (42%), and nearly one third admit to making love more often on vacation (31%).
It could also be due to the fact that over half of employed Americans say they
come back feeling reconnected with their family after vacation (53%).
A clear majority of students who traveled on an international exchange program felt they had become more trusting, open minded, flexible, confident, and tolerant as a result of their travel experiences.
Even the anticipation of vacation travel generates an increase in positive feelings about one’s life as a whole, family, economic situation, and health.
Three out of four executives believe that vacations are necessary for them to prevent burnout (78%) or that vacations improve their personal job performance (75%). Nearly as many two out of three believe that vacations improve their creativity (68%)there's a good chance the benefits of vacation will go straight to the bottom line.According to a study by American Express, more than a third of small business owners say their best ideas the ones that lead to business growth come not at work but during their downtime.
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