article_snippet: Traveling is meant to be one of the most exciting events in a person's life.
article_snippet: But more and more frustrated Australians are ditching Australians travel plans and spending more time searching than more and more frustrated Australians are on more and more frustrated Australians actual holiday, a new study has found.
article_snippet: A survey of 1000 people across the country by travel search engine KAYAK found that one in four Aussies spend the equivalent of more than half Aussies annual leave researching and planning Aussies trip.
article_snippet: About 38 per cent of people admitted people spend more time looking for flights and hotels then researching the activities people hope to do on the trip.
article_snippet: One in four Aussies, like Sydney marketing manager Sam Kelly (pictured on his last trip to Bali), spend the equivalent of more than half their annual leave researching and planning their holidays .
article_snippet: According to KAYAK 26 per cent of those surveyed from Canberra did the same thing - a figure which almost three times the national average.
article_snippet: KAYAK 26 per cent of those surveyed from Canberra also found that 31 per cent of people have resorted to completely abandoning people travel plans and bookings due to people frustration.
article_snippet: Overall, KAYAK found that 86 per cent of the people KAYAK surveyed 'spend the same amount of time or more planning and booking holidays than KAYAK did three years ago', but that more than half reported KAYAK holiday satisfaction had declined or stayed the same.
highlights_snippet: Meanwhile 31 per cent admitted to ditching their bookings in frustration .
  