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Someone is planning your vacation. It isn't you.
We asked 800 people who took a group trip last year who actually did the work. One person did almost all of it, and now there's a number for how much.
Every group trip has one. The person who found the dates that worked, chased the deposits, kept the spreadsheet, and answered the same question eleven times in the group chat. Everyone knows the role exists. Nobody has ever put a number on it.
So we did. We asked 800 US adults who took a group trip in the last year a simple question: who actually did the planning?
The organizer role is universal, unmeasured, and almost entirely invisible to the rest of the group.
the finding in one line
What the number hides
One in nine is the share who carried the trip. The more interesting findings are underneath it: how many hours the role costs, how much money the organizer fronts before anyone else pays, and how rarely the rest of the crew can name what the organizer did.
This is a draft of the report. The full tables, the method, and the sample details land here when the survey closes.