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Students travel or holidays despite budget cutting
Kamil Ross
Contributing writer
Throughout the NT campus when
it comes to the holidays, there is
a consensus: pack bags first, ask
questions later. Although travel
agents are not seeing students make
travel arrangements, and despite the
fluctuating but recently plummeting
gas prices, students are leaving the
NT campus to share in the holiday
cheer with their families and
friends,
Brandon Calhoun, a sociology
senior, said he would be driving to
Houston, Texas, his home town, for
the holidays. "Even if gas prices
hadn't subsided, I would still be
making this trip," he said.
The thoughts of good food, no
school and old-fashion family time
seem to override any factors that
may make traveling college students
caution during the holidays. On the
NT campus this may be because of
the fact that most of the students
families do not live too far from the
surrounding cities of Denton. 29,698
NT students are Texas residents and
only 1,176 students make up the
out-of-state resident population. Of
those Texas residents, sixty-three
percent reside in the Dallas area,
twenty-two percent in Ft. Worth, six
percent are from Houston and five
percent are from the San-Antonio
and Austin areas, according to the
NT Institutional
a
Research and Effectiveness Spring
2008 enrollment data.
Libbey Kutch, an applied geography
graduate student, is looking forward
to her holiday travel to Austin, Texas.
Kutch, who makes this trip every
other weekend, is not in the least
worried about driving in the holiday
hustle and bustle or spending money
on gas for a trip that takes about
three hours.
'The holiday travel won't bother
me. I'm glad gas prices are lower
but they never affected my decision
to go," she said.
On the other hand, some travel
agents are worried about business
during this holiday season because
of the lack of clients booking
vacations. Whether the trip is for a
family vacation, or just a quick trip
to visit family during the holidays,
at this moment people are just not
booking travel as much as compared
to previous years.
Soren Palmquist, a travel agent for
Mean Green Travel, said business
had been pretty flat up until the last
couple of weeks this month.
"It seems like people's travelling
plans have been tracking alongside
the economy and now that the
presidential elections are over, people
can see over that hill of uncertainty
and start making plans. I think it will
begin to pick up from here though,"
he said.
There has not
really been one
popular place or
a trend vacations
spot that the
NT students or
faculty seem to
be travelling to,
except for back to
their hometowns to
be with family and
friends. Palmquist has
seen this same idea within the
travel plans he has booked.
" It's tough to tell for this
Christmas, besides to visit
family, people are booking
vacati ons to wanner climates,
or Disney, but I don't see a
major trend in travel this year,"
he said.
Hie thought
of turkey
and
spending
time with
loved ones just
might be enough to get anyone holidays. Overall, being with family surfaced on the NT campus for this
on the road or on a plane for the seems to be the major trend that has holiday season.
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