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Fox News
23-03-2025
- Fox News
Hot travel trend turns vacations into multi-generational family affairs
As travelers begin to plan their trips for the summer, a new report is revealing the latest travel trends, spotlighting the opportunity for a family affair. American Express Travel has released its annual global travel trends report for 2025, and one trend, "fam travel," has people spending quality time with their loved ones. Audrey Hendley, president of American Express Travel, said, "Travelers, especially millennials and Gen Z, are motivated to book thoughtful, meaningful trips this year." "Fam travel" is a multi-generational trend with grandparents, parents and children all packing their bags," Hendley said in a press release. Fifty-eight percent of millennial and Gen Z parents plan to bring their extended family on vacation, the report found. "Quality time" was cited by 89% of these millennial and Gen Z-aged parents as the main reason for the vacation. Meanwhile, 24% said they bring along extended family for babysitting. When it comes to planning itineraries, younger family members take the lead. Sixty-eight percent of parents of millennials and Gen Zers say their kids are partaking in the scheduling of activities on the family trip. Another trend known as "roots travel" has been picking up momentum with Americans who are factoring in their ancestry while booking vacations. Adam Duckworth, president and founder of Travelmation, told Fox News Digital roots travel is more common among older generations. "They also have the finances to support a trip like this, and they often invite other family members to join them," said Duckworth. Fox News Digital reached out to American Express Travel for additional comment.
BBC News
22-02-2025
- Health
- BBC News
Hinckley: Community diagnostic centre on track for opening
A new diagnostics hub is on track to open in May, according to an NHS Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Integrated Care Board (LLR ICB) said the £24.6m facility would provide about 89,000 diagnostic tests per year in tests will include CT and MRI scans, endoscopy, X-ray and ultrasounds, delivered by the University Hospitals of Leicester (UHL) NHS on the site has been under way since April 2024 at Hinckley and District Community Hospital. The LLR ICB said "significant progress has been made" over recent weeks, despite a January break-in at the site, for which four men were Hendley, director of planned care for the LLR ICB, said: "We've made great progress on the new facility, which will make a big difference to local people when it opens. It will help to reduce waiting times and provide a more convenient facility for people in the community."Providing services closer to people's homes and where they work improves access to health services. We're excited to see the positive difference this facility will make."The other hub in the county - at Leicester General Hospital - has been running since 2021.
Yahoo
08-02-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Do student rentals threaten these historic homes? Why Richland County could step in
For decades, residents in the Columbia-area neighborhood of Olympia have watched historic homes be razed or renovated for student housing or other rental properties. But Richland County leaders could soon intervene, potentially pausing all new construction in the neighborhood, as well as all demolitions, rezoning efforts and major rehab projects. The move would halt any major changes in the district, but only temporarily while the county develops permanent guidelines for future projects in the area. Whether the effort has enough support from Richland County Council members remains to be seen. A motion to draft an ordinance establishing the construction pause, called a moratorium, passed in a 7-4 vote. The council still needs to hold a public hearing for the move and take three public votes before the moratorium would become official. The long-term goal, residents who have been asking for this intervention say, would be to protect the neighborhoods remaining historic assets against demolition by developers looking to build student housing. In government parlance, the protection tool at hand is called a neighborhood character overlay. The overlay would impose rules on renovations to historic structures, limit the demolition of those structures and require new construction to look similar to the historic architecture true to the neighborhood's past. The overlay would not prevent the demolition of non-historic buildings, nor would it prevent the construction of things like apartments and duplexes where zoning already allows for it. The Mill Villages as a whole have been dramatically reshaped from their early days when they were home to cotton mill workers and their families. The mills stayed active for almost 100 years, but by 1996 they had all been closed. A decade later, the Olympia and Granby Mills were both turned into student apartments, opening the floodgates for the area to become a hotbed for student rentals. As the university has grown, so too have the number of renters. The University of South Carolina's Columbia campus, located just to the east of the Mill District, grew from an enrollment of roughly 25,500 students in 1996 — the year of the final mill closure — to 33,700 students in 2016. A record 38,300 students enrolled at the Columbia campus for the Fall 2024 semester. 'We are excited for the overlay,' said Viola Hendley, a longtime Olympia resident and member of the Mill District Alliance, which advocates for preservation of the three mill villages Olympia, Granby and Whaley. Hendley has said she is not against student rentals but they should not come at the cost of protecting the 125-year-old neighborhood. The county council would have to approve the building and demolition moratorium first, and then begin working on the guidelines for the neighborhood overlay. A public hearing will also need to be scheduled for the ordinance establishing the moratorium. Hendley said she hopes the county makes its decision soon. The Granby and Whaley neighborhoods adjacent to Olympia both have historic preservation overlays. The difference is that Granby and Whaley are within Columbia city limits, but most of Olympia falls just outside of those bounds in unincorporated Richland County. The county hasn't had the framework to help until recently. 'In the meantime, we've lost a good number of historic homes,' Hendley said. But in 2024, the county passed a new land development code that carved out a way to protect historic elements in districts like Olympia. If approved, the Olympia overlay would be the county's first attempt at establishing such protections. Hendley and others in the Olympia area hope that the county's intervention can help preserve the historic structures that still remain.
