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A mancation is a male-only vacation. ==Travel industry trend== The concept of a gender specific trip has "been around since the first caveman took his club and went hunting with the others in the tribe."〔Clark, Jayne. ("Need to get away? Make it a guy thing; Male bonding goes to the next level: ‘Mancations’" ), USA Today, Dec. 29. 2006.〕 Yet, mancation has become a buzzword in the travel business lately. Tapping into the success of marketing all-girls getaway packages, hotels and resorts have started featuring all-male bonding vacation packages that include everything from poker, to extreme sports, to spa treatments.〔Morago, Greg. ("BOYS GONE WILD; TIME OFF NO LONGER A TIMEOUT FOR FUN-LOVING GUYS" ), Hartford Courant, Dec. 31, 2006.〕 Golfing is the most popular activity for all-male vacation groups,〔 but destinations have developed unique programs to accommodate the growing trend. The latest mancation packages offer spiritual healing, culinary instruction, yoga, and sexual reawakening.〔 In promoting mancations, some organizers "have discovered that men tend to create ‘micro affinity groups’ in childhood, college, or grad school, and that the groups often take trips together."〔Lebovits, Susan Chaityn. ("Fly a MiG? Swim with sharks? They're In!" ), The Boston Globe, Feb. 27, 2007.〕 According to one online survey,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=I'm in! - About Us )〕 about 34% of male respondents take at least one mancation every year. It is estimated that about 20 million American men go on mancations every year and collectively spend between $10 billion to $12 billion during these excursions.〔 The majority of these men are married and between the ages of thirty to fifty-five years old.〔 During the summer of 2006, half of the Fairmont Hotel chain’s 50 properties in the United States created mancation packages. For example, the Fairmont Chicago mancation package consists of a three-course steak dinner, a cocktail seminar, whiskey tasting, cigars, and poker.〔 A 2008 study conducted by the Synovate research firm showed that 42% of men have taken a mancation, and 42% would like to in the future. The Jim Beam and Knob Creek bourbon brands used the statistics to promote a guys' trip to the Bourbon Trail in Kentucky for National Bourbon Heritage Month, occurring annually in September. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mancation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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