{"id":8294,"date":"2013-03-20T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=8294"},"modified":"2013-03-20T08:30:49","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T12:30:49","slug":"the-economics-of-spring-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/the-economics-of-spring-break\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of Spring Break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/032013_0409_TheEconomic1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Spring break is more than just a week long holiday. It has become an entire industry writes Allie Conti:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sites like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.studentcity.com\/\">StudentCity <\/a>offer spring break packages that include up to 12 hours a day of free drinking in exotic locales with famous DJs.<\/li>\n<li>Some of these packages cost more than a semester&#8217;s worth of tuition.<\/li>\n<li>While the internet has heralded the end of most travel agencies, the spring break travel industry has thrived.<\/li>\n<li>This might be in part because students are spending their parents&#8217; money \u2013 not their own. The upper-middle class kids might also not know how to deal with unstructured free time \u2013 needing the organization of travel packages to schedule their vacation.<\/li>\n<li>The companies for their part keep staff on-site to refer intoxicated partyers to local officials.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the embodiment of spring break who runs one of the companies, other companies in the market, and why the companies hope to avoid attracting GDIs over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vice.com\/read\/spring-break-is-big-business\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vice.com\/read\/spring-break-is-big-business\">Vice<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring break is more than just a week long holiday. It has become an entire industry writes Allie Conti: Sites like StudentCity offer spring break packages that include up to 12 hours a day of free drinking in exotic locales with famous DJs. Some of these packages cost more than a semester&#8217;s worth of tuition. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/032013_0409_TheEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8294"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8298,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8294\/revisions\/8298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}