Study title

Vacation and travel habits of the West German population in 1975 as well as vacation plans for the next season. Topics: Travel frequency and regularity of vacation trips; destinations at home and abroad; same destination each year; reasons for selection of vacation area; preferred forms of countryside; travel motives and vacation expectations; form of travel and new vacation forms; travel information; time of travel decision; trip preparation; information value of magazines and newspapers for trip planning; trip organization; trip advice and use of travel agency; trip expenditures; time of trip and duration of trip; means of transport used for the vacation trip; satisfaction with travel accomodations; significance of accomodations for vacation; preferred types of accomodation; meal habits on vacation; satisfaction with meals; attitude to forms of meals; activities at place of vacation; significance of vacation occupations; trip satisfaction; intensity and time of winter vacation travels; frequency and destinations of short vacation trips; short vacation trips as city trips; means of transport used, point in time and organization of short vacation trips; travel intents and destination for a vacation in the coming year; probable means of travel used; reasons against a vacation in the coming year; assessment of the general economic development and personal economic situation; right to vacation and taking vacation; obstacles to a vacation. Main focus areas of this survey were: vacation accomodations; use of travel agency; travel agency image and short vacation trips. Demography: age; sex; marital status; religious denomination; school education; occupation; employment; household income; size of household; composition of household; head of household. Also encoded was: city code.