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Black Tomato’s Forecast: 5 Travel Trends We’ll See In 2024
30.12.2023 - 01:55 / forbes.com
The principals of the innovative London and New York-based travel company Black Tomato made their name by assembling detail-oriented and sometimes very out of the way travel plans for exceedingly curious, adventurous clients. Having surveyed the market to ascertain what their clients are interested in now and the changes they see in the travel landscape, they’ve come up with the ways they see that travel happening in the next year and in what parts of the world those ambitious travelers could be.
Traveling in groups: The pandemic caused widespread isolation and it’s most likely one of the reasons that gathering friends and family together to travel as a group has increased in popularity; they note that bookings for eight or more people have gone up by 35% and now represent 30% of all bookings. Possible trips: take the entire gang to Botswana on safari; take over a riad in the Marrakech medina or a kasbah on the edge of the desert in Morocco; sail down the Nile in a vintage sailboat in Egypt or on a chartered junk boat in Vietnam.
New Frontiers: Travelers want to venture outside of their comfort zones and stretch their personal boundaries both in where they travel and how. That translates to trips such as rafting the Urubamba Valley in Peru, doing a Botswana safari in a different way (by quad bike) or trekking the sacred path of the Kumano Kodo, a network of pilgrimage trails in the Kii Peninsula in Japan’s southern Kansai region that have been in use for over 1000 years.
Generational Learning Experiences: Family members share passionate interests with the generation above or below and they all engage in studying it together. That could be a foodie road trip through New England in the U.S., a study of limestone sculpture in Italy’s Puglia region or the martial arts practice of bushido in the Asakuso Dojo in Japan.
In Search of Silence: Residents of noisy urban centers and those in high stress industries and careers need to take a break and literally quiet their minds down, preferably in an ultra-quiet place. That is completely achievable in Namibia amid the red sand dunes of Sossusvlei, the shipwreck strewn beaches of the Skeleton Coast or observing rhino and elephant in Etosha National Park. The remoteness and solitude of Mongolia and the less touristed reaches of Iceland can also deliver that serenity. So can Canada’s British Columbia and its forested wilderness of Great Bear Rainforest and Nimmo Bay.
Food-Seeking Pilgrimages: Culinary travel has steadily increased over the last few years but the goal now is not just to have meals in the world’s most sought after restaurants, it’s to seek out specific, perfect examples of a dish or ingredient. That could be a trip to a family run restaurant in a
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