'To mark the launch of the new BMW 2 Series Active Tourer, the Telegraph is encouraging readers to embark on family road trips. With its innovative features, spacious interior and great looks, the new BMW 2 Series Active Tourer is the ideal car to take through the city or off the beaten track. Here, you can read more about the family-focussed BMW, find road trip inspiration and enter a prize draw to win a luxury glamping trip – with the use of a BMW 2 Series Active Tourer'
This article followed rowing legend James Cracknell, wife Beverley Turner, and his family on a road trip to get closer to later. The general jist of the article is that these days it is not a 'must' to have an expensive, get-away abroad and that a lot can be explored and appreciated much closer to home within nature. With a generation so engorged in technology to form as peoples sole entertainment or communication system, many families want to more away from their children becoming engrossed in this, a bringing them back to basics. A road trip forces face-to-face communication, eliminates the need for technical devices and the internet, encourages bonding between families and implements the need for basic skills such as setting up a tent or starting a fire on camping trips. From what I can get from this family's story and others I know similar, you don't have to splash out to escape the hustle and bustle of everyday family life and sometimes all it takes is a trip back to basics to appreciate the importance of family values.
'These weekends prove that you don’t need to head to an exotic destination to have fun as a family'
'So why not put the smartphones and tablets away? The internet will still be there when you get back'
'So why not put the smartphones and tablets away? The internet will still be there when you get back'
- Year-end holiday travelers to total 93.3 million, an increase of 1.6 percent from the 91.8 million that traveled last year
- Ninety percent of travelers (84.4 million) to travel by automobile, representing 26.7 percent of the total U.S. population
- Holiday air travel expected to increase 4.5 percent to 5.6 million travelers from 5.4 million in 2011
- Median spending expected to increase almost six percent to $759, compared to $718 in 2011 with transportation costs consuming about 29 cents of every travel dollar.
- Average distance traveled to increase to 760 miles round-trip from 726 miles, an expected result with an increase in air travelers
- Travel volumes for the year-end holidays are generally very stable, only once in the past decade has there been a change in travel volume greater than five percent
- Hotel rates to increase slightly, car rental rates increase 41 percent