Record Numbers of Young Aussies are Taking on Debt for Bucket-List Trips

by Jemima Skelley URL Copied! Money comes and goes but you’re only going to be travelling to Europe in your 20s once. Or at least, that’s the vibe I get any time I open Instagram and TikTok between May and September every year. Though we’re firmly in a cost of living crisis, the amount of people choosing to take holidays hasn’t gone down — the number of Aussies taking overseas trips this year is 32 per cent higher than last year.

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. is it worth going to debt for a holiday? When I put the question out on Instagram to chat with people who had gone into debt to travel, the response was overwhelming. My friends have taken out thousands in credit card debt to book flights, take bucket list trips arou.