National Plan for Vacation Day

Join the conversation on January 31, 2023 to encourage Americans to find joy in planning and looking forward to a future vacation.

National Plan for Vacation Day (NPVD) is a day to encourage Americans to plan their vacation days for the whole year at the start of the year—and inspire them to use those days to explore the USA. NPVD highlights the importance of taking time off to travel—both for personal wellbeing and for the overall economic prosperity of our nation.

Since 2015, when the travel industry and partners began tracking American vacation usage, survey findings have continuously shown that vacation days are not being used, negatively affecting mental health, personal relationships and job performance.

National Plan for Vacation Day helps highlight the importance of taking time off to travel—both for our personal health and wellbeing and for the overall economic prosperity of our nation.

This year’s National Plan for Vacation Day is on January 31. Together, using #PlanForVacation, we will remind Americans to commit—and take—their days off.

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Is your lodging property or tourism business doing something to celebrate NPVD this year? We want to hear about it! Email us at industry@traveloregon.com.