AFAR – September 2019

How does travel make you happy? In our first-ever

happiness survey, presented by the Aruba Tourism

Board, we turned that question over to you. More than

15,000 of you replied: Turns out you love to connect

with new people (big surprise) and you’d rather leave

room for spontaneity than have a completely planned

trip. Explore the results on these pages. For more,

including videos inspired by readers’ happiest travels,

visit afar.com/happy.

HOW MANY
VACATION DAYS
DO YOU
USE PER YEAR?

HOW MANY

TRIPS DO

YOU TAKE PER

YEAR?

IN AN IDEAL

WORLD, HOW MUCH

WOULD

YOU TRAVEL?

WHEN I TRAVEL,

I PREFER TO...

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE

WAY TO CAPTURE YOUR

TRIPS?

INFOGRAPHICS BY VALERIO PELLEGRINI

I’m happy

with how

much I travel

13%

I wish I could travel more

86%

I’m on the road

too much

1%

67% Photography

3% Other

2% Journaling

1% Blogging

20% Posting

on social media

6% I don’t do any of those things

1% Scrapbooking

None

3%

4-6 trips

28%

0-4 days

7%

5-9 days

10%

10-20 days

34%

More than

20 days

23%

I don’t

have official

vacation days

26%

1-3 trips

54%

7-9 trips

7%

More than 9 trips

8%

14%

Have a planned itinerary

68%

Have some main spots

in mind, but nothing

concrete

4%

Other

14%

Leave my schedule open

so I can go with the flow