A black and white abstract image with scattered bright white dots forming irregular patterns.
Hotels.com logo with a red stylized 'H' and the text 'Hotels.com' in red.
Text in large, bold letters that reads "Vacation Equality Project" on a black background.
Miniature sandcastle with an American flag on top, set on a sandy beach. In the background, there are tiny trees and a torii gate, with the ocean and sky in the distance.

U.S. is the only advanced economy with no guaranteed minimum vacation time

Most Americans don't know that the U.S. is the only advanced economy with no guaranteed minimum vacation time, with one in four working Americans having no paid time off.

As a company that has a passion for helping people find hotels for their vacations, we saw taking this issue on as an opportunity for Hotels.com to prove their passion. So they took this issue on as their mission to help Americans get the guaranteed paid vacation time off they deserve, by law.

To make this happen, we created the Vacation Equality Project to create awareness of the issue. So we told the message using something people who don’t go on vacation will never see, sandcastles… 

Comparison of USA and Belgium vacation days, USA with 0 days, Belgium with 20 days, represented by their flags.
World map showing countries with numbers and flags indicating data points or statistics, including Canada, USA, Venezuela, Ecuador, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Ireland, France, Switzerland, Germany, Russia, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Tanzania, South Africa, Sierra Leone, and Colombia.

time for a change…

LAUNCH VIDEO

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The Fight Against America’s Terrible Vacation Policies Is Heating Up

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Sand sculpture featuring a small French flag, a heart-shaped sand sculpture, and raised words including 'Germany', 'Italy', 'Thailand', and '20', on a sandy surface.
Sandcastle with the Eiffel Tower replica, a heart-shaped pebble, and a small torii gate on the beach at sunset.
A man and a woman sitting on a stone wall in front of a historic building with an arched entrance. The woman is wearing a red dress and the man is wearing a dark coat. They appear to be enjoying a moment together outdoors.

you Sign the petition…

We asked Americans to do their part by signing a petition at VacationEqualityProject.com, to try and make this a law through White House Petitions.

An infographic encouraging signing a petition to support legislation for paid vacation days for American workers. It illustrates sending postcards to the White House, with steps for digital signatures and postcard mailing, and shows a beach scene with an umbrella and chair, with a counter for signatures and countdown timer.
Laptop displaying a webpage with a banner for a petition titled "Vacation Equality" encouraging America to guarantee paid vacation days, with options to sign the petition and watch a film.

We SENT CONGRESS A LETTER ON YOUR BEHALF

As a subtle, f*** you, for every digital signature we got, we sent a physical letter in the form cliché vacation postcards people get as souveniers on vacations.

A beach scene with a white umbrella and a lounge chair on sandy shore, ocean and sky in the background, with overlaid text that reads 'Wish I Was Here' and a small label that says 'Vacation Equality Project'.

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