National Grandparents Day: Take the Grandkids!

You can bicycle along this canal with VBT. Photo from VBT Bicycling and Walking Vacations.

It was news to me, but National Grandparents Day is on Sunday, September 13^th. 

According to Family Travel Association:

• 50 million U.S. households are now led by grandparents, forecasting a continued travel boom by this large group of baby boomers.
• Today’s grandparents are far more active than their parents were, spending lots of time planning trips around specific activities.
• As a result, multi-generational adventure travel is up 30% year after year. (Multi-generational travel is the fastest growing segment of the travel industry and tops the list of travel trends, according to the Virtuoso Luxe Report.) 
• More grandparents are traveling with just the grandchildren, leaving the greandkids’ parents’ behind.  
• 22% of all grandparents traveled with just their grandchildren in the past year.

Here are a few suggestions for multi-generational travel, whether it’s… Continue reading →