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"Even in a good economy, the thought of being laid off after having scheduled a long vacation crosses most people&amp;#039;s minds. So I suppose it&amp;#039;s not exactly news that travelers can buy layoff insurance (it&amp;#039;s been around for some time, in fact), but what is newsworthy is that more people are actually using it now than ever. Personally I think it&amp;#039;s a good thing; it&amp;#039;s great that people are still traveling, despite the rocky economy. After all, is there ever really such a thing as a &amp;quot;good time&amp;quot;\u2014or, for that matter, a &amp;quot;bad time&amp;quot;\u2013to travel? Or, could now actually be a better time than any? This past Christmas, I went on a 2 \u00BD-week tour of southeast Asia. The trip was scheduled before any real news of a recession, but I can&amp;#039;t say that work wasn&amp;#039;t on my mind while guest-house hopping through Thailand . I can say that I didn&amp;#039;t meet any other Americans on my trip, though I was hard-pressed to escape the company of Europeans or Australians (who, by the way, didn&amp;#039;t feel an ounce of remorse about their month-long holidays). But our friends abroad are feeling the impact, too\u2014if not worse. A traveler I met in Chiang Mai who worked in London &amp;#039;s finance district decided to take this year off, hoping that by the time he returned, the economy will have had a chance to recover. This gave a few of us traveling with him something to think about. Was he on to something? Or should those of us who are so nervous about traveling that we opt for layoff insurance not be traveling now at all? http://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/03/05/layoff.insurance/ What do you think? Share your opinion here. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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