Vacation

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Booking.com Celebrates Sustainable Travel With New Smokey Bear ... (Forbes)

Here's how you can be the lucky traveler to experience a two-night stay at the Smokey Bear Ranger District House before it becomes a place of respite for ...

“Whether a sleek city hotel, a family-friendly beach house, or even a Smokey Bear Ranger District House in a national forest, Booking.com offers thousands of Travel Sustainable certified properties making it easy to find and book sustainable stays.” The Smokey Bear was designed with practices to earn it the Travel Sustainable badge. 2 at noon ET (sharp!) to try your luck at scoring a reservation for the one-of-kind travel experience. The company is donating the home to the Smokey Bear Ranger District in Lincoln National Forest, where it will be used to give park rangers and firefighters a place of respite. 7 for just $19.50 (a nod to 1950, the year the real Smokey Bear was rescued from a forest fire). There’s a new vacation home just outside of Lincoln National Forest—and it’s Smokey Bear-approved from floor to ceiling.

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Would You Sell Your Vacation Days for Cash? (WIRED)

More startups are inviting workers to trade their unused PTO, a perk that can also benefit employers. It may also worsen US workers' vacation deficit.

It then offers employees the opportunity to cash out the PTO they probably won’t use, and can provide their employer a low-interest loan to cover the payment. In 2018, more than half of US workers left vacation days on the table, according to the PTO Exchange, for instance, charges employees a 7.5 percent service fee on every transaction to support its business and avoid tax consequences for employers and workers. (A policy of unlimited vacation can offer employers an alternative solution to the same problem: When no balance accumulates, there’s nothing to pay out.) Startups have popped up in the past several years to help employers offer to buy out workers’ unused vacation days. Garcia needed the extra money to cover a bill.

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