{
  "id": 867251,
  "title": "Survey: Digital Detox on Vacation: Most Fast Only Briefly",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/14/umfrage-digital-detox-im-urlaub-die-meisten-fasten-nur-kurz",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-08-14T11:41:15.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Handelsblatt",
    "slug": "handelsblatt",
    "url": "https://www.handelsblatt.com/technik/it-internet/umfrage-digital-detox-im-urlaub-die-meisten-fasten-nur-kurz/100247362.html"
  },
  "original_language": "de",
  "account": "More offline, slowing down and in \"real\" life: digital detox seems to be trending, especially during vacation time. However, only one in five people (22 percent) decides to take a conscious break from digital devices and applications, according to a representative survey by Bitkom Research.\n\nMost people only take a short break. For most people, it's just a short pause from smartphones, social networks, or video streaming. 13 percent of summer vacationers plan a day of digital detox during their vacation. One in twenty (5 percent) wants to try it for several days, 3 percent for a whole week. Only 1 percent wants to last longer.\n\nThe ambitions are strikingly age-dependent: among 16- to 29-year-olds, only 17 percent want to digitally fast during their summer vacation, according to Bitkom Research. For those over 65, it's 32 percent.\n\nThree low-threshold tips. Digital detox expert Daniela Holsboer confirms that many people struggle to put their phone away completely from one day to the next. According to the author, no one has to do that: \"The beauty of digital detox is that it works in homeopathic doses,\" says Holsboer.\n\nThree entry tips from the expert:\n\n1. Digital interval fasting. This can look like this: 15 minutes online, four hours offline, and then repeat. App limits can help with this, or smartphone modes that limit accessibility. By the way, it works better together than alone. And if travel companions like friends or family join in, you gain common time.\n\n2. Enjoy instead of taking dozens of pictures. Often, the result of a vacation is hundreds of photos that are never looked at again. It's better to forego some pictures and instead fully experience the moment. \"If you take a breath before reaching for your phone and ask yourself: 'Why?', you will find that in most cases, you have no real reason to do so,\" says Daniela Holsboer.\n\n3. Introduce mini-routines. Small rituals that you undertake can help against the impulse to reach for your device. For example, enjoying meals or a cup of tea during the day without your phone. Or starting and ending the day without a screen. \"If you start your vacation by activating your smartphone only after breakfast, you can switch to a normal alarm clock at home and no longer be one of the nine out of ten people who start their day by reaching for their smartphone,\" says the expert.",
  "summary": "Less smartphone, streaming and co. on vacation: Many people plan a digital detox. However, a survey shows that the mini-version is the trend. Tips for implementation.",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}