{"id":238487,"date":"2022-05-05T17:58:08","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T17:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/inflation-and-high-gas-prices-have-travelers-opting-for-near-cations-again"},"modified":"2022-05-05T17:58:08","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T17:58:08","slug":"inflation-and-high-gas-prices-have-travelers-opting-for-near-cations-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/inflation-and-high-gas-prices-have-travelers-opting-for-near-cations-again","title":{"rendered":"Inflation and High Gas Prices Have Travelers Opting for &#8216;Near-Cations&#8217; Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With gas prices cresting $4 a gallon and inflation surging at everyday stores and hotels, planning a summer vacation warrants more stress than it does excitement. Instead of using all their rainy-day funds on one trip, though, a significant number of travelers have decided to scale back their plans to combat the rising prices. That means staying closer to home and opting for a more budget-friendly &#8220;near-cation&#8221; that requires less travel and, ultimately, less money.This is a step up from stay-cationing, which so many of us did for the past two years, but still, with hopes that this would be the first ordinary summer since we first came to know masks and social distancing, abbreviated traveling may come as a disappointment. Recently, Harvest Hosts, a top membership platform for RVers, released a survey that broke down travelers&#8217; expectations for the coming busy season. More than half of Americans are prepared to change their plans so that they don&#8217;t come back<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With gas prices cresting $4 a gallon and inflation surging at everyday stores and hotels, planning a summer vacation warrants more stress than it does excitement. Instead of using all<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}