This change is mostly because frequent short vacations are better suited to households in which both partners work.

Smiling wanly, he added, "Perhaps frequent vacations back on earth will be the answer.

Vacation trends indicate families choosing to take shorter, more frequent vacations that they can drive to.

Birklam can tell you that I have taken frequent vacations.

Most have just juggled the 180-day schedule, with shorter but more frequent vacations.

Others find they have to take more frequent vacations to stay on an even keel.

Also true, the car is English and has spent years honing a reputation for frequent vacations at the repair shop.

Shorter but more frequent vacations - of perhaps three to four weeks - would be staggered throughout the year, keeping classrooms filled.

Hugh McCormac being their uncle by his second marriage, the children spent frequent vacations at Windhome.

Travel industry experts say that in the last several years, Americans have been taking shorter, but more frequent, vacations.