Smart hotel rooms, robot companions and venturing into space will make travelling a whole new experience in the coming decade.
Wednesday 27 November, 2019. MELBOURNE. Leading online travel company Luxury Escapes today released extensive research into how Australians will travel in the next decade with their report, Travel 2020: Forecasting the new decade of travel.
Surveying close to 20,000 Australian travellers, the report is one of the largest travel industry consumer reports in 2019. Luxury Escapes engaged research firm Nature to undertake the research, surveying their own customer base of 3.2 million members, along with a broader cohort of Australian consumers.
The report found that Aussies love to travel, with one in two respondents spending at least $2,000 a year on domestic travel and three in ten spending more than $10,000 a year on international travel.
The research identifies and outlines seven key trends that will impact how Aussies travel in the next decade:
International destinations to visit in 2020: Canada (21%), USA (19%), Italy (17%), England (15%) and Greece (14%)
The connected trip: 1 in 4 travellers want to be connected 24/7 on holidays, 14% go off the grid
Transformational travel: Top interests to travel are food (59%), local culture (55%), history (52%) and walking (32%)
No bad time to book a holiday: Five nights most popular length of trip, 28% spend more than $10k on international travel
Conscious travel: 1 in 4 Australians would travel for a wellness retreat, 13% would try 'voluntourism'
Travel innovations: Smart hotel rooms (36%), facial recognition at airport (29%), robot companions (9%) and 1 in 5 want to try space travel
"We know that Australians love to travel, and this research confirms it, showing Australians are planning to travel even more in the coming decade, with frequent domestic travel and an annual trip overseas, increasingly to celebrate life's milestones, to relax and recharge, or to blend work with a holiday - all themes that we saw from this research and that marry up with what we're experiencing" Luxury Escapes CEO Cameron Holland says.
"We're seeing more and more the importance of providing relevant experiences through personalisation whilst also inspiring travellers to visit destinations they never previously considered thanks to our sophisticated algorithms."
"Understanding how Australians want to travel in the next decade, and what they want to do when they're away means that Luxury Escapes can continue to provide the best curated experiences in the market", adds Holland.
The report features expert
