Exercise
Tap all the highlighted words in the transcript below to see their definition. ⇩Travel practices and experiences, like many things, change and evolve so much with the time and adapt to traveller inquietudes.
Let’s check out 6 travel trends that will change the way we travel in the coming years:
1. Space Travel
The time has finally come in 2020. Virgin Galactic or Blue Origin are about to launch their first traveller based rocket planes for a 90-minute sub-orbital hop into space. The trip experience will cost around $250,000. Too much for the average traveller for now. 🙂
2. Green and Eco-Tourism
Green Tourism is not new, but the rapidly evolving awareness of the population regarding climate change generated by fossil fuels, drives this trend up with ecological hotels, travelling by train instead of plane (inspired by Greta Thunberg), sustainable carbon sensitive experiences and much more. We hope this trend will spread into tourism and all aspects of our lives.
3. NAKATION
Naked Holidays are taking off for travellers to experience the liberating feeling of not wearing clothes. This is about becoming more human and natural as we connect with ourselves. You can find Nakation experiences in quite a few activities such as restaurants, hikes, camping, canoeing, cruises, wild swimming and yoga.
4. Ancestry Travel
A new trend becoming very popular is travelling to the places where people’s forebearers are from. According to the MIT Technology review, 26 million people have already taken an ancestry DNA test at home, increasing their curiosity to go in search of their roots. We see individuals seeking out shared genetic links and cultural synergies.
5. Spartan holidays
This is a mix between disconnecting from technology and enhancing a minimalist lifestyle. The idea is to travel with as little material elements as possible so you embrace physical and mental freedom. The destinations are also linked to isolated landscapes, and electricity and internet free accommodations.
6. Bleisure
Bleisure is growing pretty fast and combines business and leisure travel. As opposed to Spartan travel, new technologies allow us to work remotely, and travellers are adopting a practice to travel for longer periods while they experience local cultures and travel on the way to international clients.
Do you know what these travel experiences have in common with each other? You will need English to be able to make your own decisions and design them to your liking. 🙂
Which one of these trends do you identify with the most? Feel free to comment below.
See Grammar explanation
Used to say how something happens or is done, and they usually end in -ly, for example: “quickly” or “slowly“. Adverbs of quantity indicate the degree to which something is done or is. The adverbs “very”, “so” and “too” usually go with adjectives. E.g:
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- “It’s very big.”
- “This is so great.”
- “This is too much.”
- “I love you very much.”
- “I think it’s quite good.”
- “It has improved. It’s fairly good.”
- “I rather play another game.”
- “She is pretty smart”
- “I’m a bit sad.”
- “I will eat only a little“
Related Course Units
Unit 75 – Adverbs of Quantity: Very, So, Too
Unit 76 – Adverbs of Quantity: Too Much, Too Many
Hi guys! The article war really interesting and I’ve read it just now.
In my opinion people are living in several different ways all around the world so it’s quite natural that there are many trends all around the world.
Each person has his own trend and this choice is strictly connected with family, job , earnings and native place.
Thanks for your feedback, Dave!
Hi, I think that is important to say that this new trends of travel make that a lot of humans arrives to virgin places and if we don’t be careful with this we can destroy them
Good point, Anna!
Another way is traveling around the world in a camper. I’ve watched some couples in YouTube that do that and they record their experience. One of them that I remember is a couple that were traveling around Mexico’s beaches in their camper. I would like to do that but I guess that you need a particular kind of job that you can do in the distance.
That sounds very interesting.
Hi Marc,
Space travel is very attractive but it is so expensive !! I hope to win the lottery .
We would all love to win the lottery.
Sometimes I travel with my laptop and work during the trip. So I have some experience of bleisure. But ancestry travel is interesting too, I think.