Emma never trusted managers. She's just won salesman of the month for the fourth month running and what does he do? Reminds her that she's legally obliged to take vacation. Which is how she wound up here, in a beach resort which was sold to her as the most relaxing (i.e. boring) place to go. Lying travel agent. Why couldn't they have said "Go here and get crashed into by a falling alien spaceship?", then she'd have gone somewhere else!