{"id":2209,"date":"2013-07-02T13:02:29","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T13:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=2209"},"modified":"2013-07-02T13:02:29","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T13:02:29","slug":"french-stay-connected-on-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=2209","title":{"rendered":"French stay connected on holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bristolwireless.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/beach_wifi.jpeg\" width=\"147\" height=\"160\" class=\"alignright\" \/>Nearly one in two French citizens takes a computer on holiday to connect to the internet, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lemondeinformatique.fr\/actualites\/lire-les-francais-restent-connectes-en-vacances-54213.html\">reports Le Monde Informatique<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A survey has revealed that 47.2% of the French may take a computer on holiday this summer, with a peak of 60% in the 18-24 years old group. A majority of them plan to use the computer for an average half an hour a day (46.1% between 30 minutes and 1 hour; 17.3% more than one hour).<\/p>\n<p>Once connected, 87.5% of holidaymakers will use their computer to surf the internet, 57.6% for leisure (watching films or listening to music), 37.4% for saving or retouching their photographs and 19.8% for work.<\/p>\n<p>Although 91.2% of holidaymakers will be connecting from where they are staying (hotel, rented accommodation, camp site), 29.8% also want to make use of places offering wifi connections, 11.7% for surfing while travelling and 4.2% are even going to be brave enough to use their computer on the beach. A majority of them (64.3%) also complain regularly of the lack of wifi or its poor quality.<\/p>\n<p>Even though the majority of holidaymakers (71.9%) give priority to relaxing during summer, spending time in front of a computer or another device has now become a priority form almost one in 10 French citizens (9.3%).<\/p>\n<p>This survey was conducted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.easypanel.fr\/\">Easy Panel<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crucial.fr\/eu\/index.aspx\">Crucial.fr<\/a> via the internet from 23rd to 26th April 2013 using a sample of 1,015 people owning a computer and representative of the French population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly one in two French citizens takes a computer on holiday to connect to the internet, reports Le Monde Informatique. A survey has revealed that 47.2% of the French may take a computer on holiday this summer, with a peak of 60% in the 18-24 years old group. A majority of them plan to use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,9],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-2209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oddities","category-tech","tag-tech-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2210,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209\/revisions\/2210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}