Weekend survey: Do you plan to travel more in 2011?

Planning to go somewhere next year?

I’m interested in knowing if your vacation itinerary will be busier in 2011 than it was this year. Is the improving economy encouraging more travel? Or are you staying closer to home in 2011?

Here’s the survey.

Also, please and tell me why you’re traveling more (or less) and where you’re planning to go. (As always, please include your full name, city and occupation. Your answer may appear in a story.)

Thanks, and have a great weekend!

  • http://www.relativeart.com Sue

    We are planning a longer trip in 2011. The economy has improved but it’s still a struggle.

  • cjr

    We were already planning to travel less next year due to the fact that airlines have made flying as frustrating as possible.

    TSA has now ensured that we will travel less.

  • Mike Burrows

    Even though I go to extremes to avoid as much pain as we can from travel, it is still tiring and painful. TSA requirements eat time. Blowing 2 hours at the airport before a 2 hour hour flight is a poor use of time. Car rental is a constant pain, and increasingly costly. My favorite carrier, AirTran will be swallowed up in Southwest. I will not expose myself to that pain. Hotel prices are becoming obscene. I want to make more use of “GoToMeeting.”

  • Monica

    We are traveling more, with five confirmed trips on the calendar (each 4-7 days). We plan on driving because of the craziness at the airports now. Only two of our trips will be flying beacuse I’m going solo on one and the other is on the opposite coast.

  • Tom

    I’m glad the whiners are not flying because it makes the trip more pleasant for the rest of us. Airfares are relatively low right now and you can Priceline some hotel bargains too. The way I figure it, stock market investments have a negative return for the past decade; bank and bond accounts pay almost nothing in interest; the dollar is going to lose value soon because the government is printing so much money — so you might as well spend the money now before it becomes devalued. I don’t think anybody ever died wishing they had travelled less.

  • Sommer Gentry

    I will be traveling much less, and only by car or train, because the TSA terrifies me. I have no intention of lining up to let them take pornographic pictures of me, nor squeeze and twist my breasts. Once this insanity stops, I’ll be back to flying my usual 25 round trips or so per year.

  • Carrie Charney

    I have not been made to become a radiated porn star or a rape victim for the TSA….yet. I’m sure it’s inevitable. Right now, I plan on travelling about the same as always. As a leisure traveller, I fly to see far family and take the train to see near family. In between, I try to see the world while I still am able-bodied. In general, It may take longer to get from one place to another, but I have generally been well-treated along the way.

  • Jean

    I plan on taking vacations in the US until it’s safe to fly. By “safe to fly” I mean when the TSA ceases to assault passengers and violating the 4th amendment.

  • Ed

    I will be traveling more, but this has nothing to do with the economy. I’m just traveling because it is the year I go to Hawaii…plus, I need to go to plan for my 20 year anniversary in 2012!

  • Michael

    I’m not sure if I’ll be traveling more or less. It all depends on news I am supposed to receive about a recording session in Dublin and if I get enough advance notice to request the time off. If not, I’ll be hopefully doing about the same amount of “travel,” which has been basically none – not because of the whole TSA situation, but because of my employer.

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  • todd

    i will not set foot in an airport or fly until the TSA stops its sexual assault policies and shuts down its health risk scanners for good. Driving 730 miles to Atlanta for christmas because of the TSA, which I will gladly to if it will stop my nephews from possible future molestation by the TSA. 30 of us on an anti TSA forum account for $87,000 in lost revenue for the airlines because of this.