"Andrea Wade, a private investigator in Orlando, Fla., decided she really needed to get away for a weekend, and Miami wasn't far enough. So she headed off for three days � to Paris.
A growing number of Americans are deciding that when it comes to a weekend away, almost nowhere is too far to go. Forty-eight hours in Tokyo? American Airlines reports that last-minute trips from Kennedy Airport to Narita — with a fare of about $400 a person for a stay of less than seven days — are "very popular." And at Site59, a travel packager, sales of last-minute getaways for long weekends in places like Zurich and Madrid jumped 24 percent last year.
Meanwhile, Gate 1 Travel, a Glenside, Pa., travel agency that offers five-night packages to Tel Aviv and four-night trips to Athens, says that 75 percent of its business now comes from shorter bookings, up from 20 percent two years ago. "
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