A hot trend in the revved-up economy of the past, combining business travel with family or leisure pursuits has fallen sharply.

过去经济飞速发展的时代，将商务旅行与家庭旅行或休闲活动结合起来曾经是一大热潮，然而现在这种做法急剧减少。

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To produce the annual index, International Living considers nine categories: Cost of Living, Culture and Leisure, Economy, Environment, Freedom, Health, Infrastructure, Safety and Risk, and Climate.

《国际生活》杂志主要根据九大因素得出了这一年度指数，其中包括：生活成本、文化休閒、 经济、环境、自由度、健康、基础设施、安全风险和气候。

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Leisure economy is the trend of world social and economic development in the 21 Century.

休闲经济是21世纪社会经济的发展趋势。

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"It's part of the problem of the entertainment and tourist industry that you are so dependent upon a buoyant economy, because one of the first things that people cut is their discretionary leisure spending."

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"The middle class is carrying the load in this recession, " says Linda Nazareth, an economist and author of The Leisure Economy.

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We are much more of a leisure, retail and service based economy than ever before.

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The university sector has rejected previous criticisms of such specialised vocational courses, arguing that areas such as tourism and leisure are major employers and significant aspects of the national economy.

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