Dia­mond Resorts- Stay Vacationed
LAS VEGAS, NV (Feb­ru­ary 3, 2017) — The con­clu­sion reached by numer­ous stud­ies over the past few years show vaca­tions have a quan­ti­ta­tive­ly pos­i­tive effect on phys­i­cal and men­tal health. Despite clear evi­dence, Amer­i­cans find it dif­fi­cult to take a break. Accord­ing to data com­piled by the Bureau of Labor Sta­tis­tics, peo­ple are work­ing much hard­er than a gen­er­a­tion ago – in 1976 more than 9 mil­lion peo­ple took a sum­mer break, but that num­ber dropped to 7 mil­lion by 2014. Dia­mond Resorts Inter­na­tion­al®, one of the world’s biggest vaca­tion time­share net­works with over 350 des­ti­na­tions in 34 coun­tries, has com­piled evi­dence show­ing just how fre­quent retreats can improve our health.

A 2013 sur­vey com­mis­sioned by Dia­mond Resorts Inter­na­tion­al® through Nielsen Com­pa­ny found over 75% of respon­dents report­ed feel­ing hap­pi­er when they planned a trip at least once a year.1 But in spite of that, Amer­i­cans are leav­ing an aver­age of 9.2 vaca­tion days unused. In the U.S., most work­ers receive about 14 vaca­tion days, com­pared with 26 for Britain and 37 for France. A New York Times arti­cle report­ed that for both men and women, tak­ing a break every two years sig­nif­i­cant­ly lessens the risk of coro­nary heart dis­ease or heart attacks. One study pub­lished in 2000, tracked 12,000 men over nine years and found that those who failed to take an annu­al vaca­tion were 32% more like­ly to die of a heart attack at an ear­ly age.

Dia­mond Resorts Inter­na­tion­al® also high­lights that bet­ter sleep is one of the last­ing results of reg­u­lar vaca­tions. In 2006, Mark Rosekind, pres­i­dent and chief sci­en­tist of the sci­en­tif­ic con­sult­ing firm Alert­ness Solu­tions – which has worked with NASA on sleep issues – con­duct­ed a sci­en­tif­ic study for Air New Zealand to mea­sure the imme­di­ate effects of a vaca­tion. He mon­i­tored a group of 15 peo­ple who were trav­el­ing to New Zealand for jour­neys last­ing between 7 and 12 days. Using brain mon­i­tors and a wrist device to mea­sure the quan­ti­ty and qual­i­ty of their sleep three days before, dur­ing, and after a vaca­tion, he found after two to three days of vaca­tion time, peo­ple aver­aged an hour increase of good qual­i­ty sleep and 80% improve­ment in reac­tion times. The pro­duce last­ing effects remained when they returned home, with that same hour of good sleep still being achieved. 2

About Dia­mond Resorts International®

Dia­mond Resorts Inter­na­tion­al®, with its net­work of more than 370 vaca­tion des­ti­na­tions locat­ed in 35 coun­tries through­out the con­ti­nen­tal Unit­ed States, Hawaii, Cana­da, Mex­i­co, the Caribbean, South Amer­i­ca, Cen­tral Amer­i­ca, Europe, Asia, Aus­trala­sia and Africa, pro­vides guests with choice and flex­i­bil­i­ty to let them cre­ate their dream vaca­tion, whether they are trav­el­ing an hour away or around the world. Our relax­ing vaca­tions have the pow­er to give guests an increased sense of hap­pi­ness and sat­is­fac­tion in their lives, while feel­ing health­i­er and more ful­filled in their rela­tion­ships, by enjoy­ing mem­o­rable and mean­ing­ful expe­ri­ences that let them Stay Vacationed.™

Dia­mond Resorts Inter­na­tion­al® man­ages vaca­tion own­er­ship resorts and sells vaca­tion own­er­ship points that pro­vide mem­bers and own­ers with Vaca­tions for Life® at over 370 man­aged and affil­i­at­ed prop­er­ties and cruise itineraries.