Research director Nancy Lazarus has keenly followed the vacationing trends of meeting planners—and the rest of us—for the past two years. One of the strongest trends in the last decade has been to have pre- and post-stay leisure travel tacked onto travel for business. In fact, destinations promote such pre- and post-stay opportunities when competing for meetings business, and planners routinely build these opportunities into their meetings programs. So why don't planners take advantage of the same opportunities they offer their attendees? As Lazarus discovered, planners are not immune to the same pressure felt by other U.S. workers—that the demands of the the job precludes extended stays away from the office. Nazarus, who had also been following the "staycation" trend in the consumer media, inserted a question regarding this phenomenon into her survey. She found that 13 percent of planners enjoying staying home on their days off. But since planners (unlike many other workers) may travel up to 30 percent of the year for business, staying home actually does feel like a vacation.