New, on-trend travel ideas for 2023 - Travel Kinship's Top Tips
Help your clients kickstart their 2023 travel plans with our quick guide to the travel themes dominating the headlines and our current favourite products that your clients will want to hear about.
For most people, travel is on the top of our new-year’s resolutions list. Last year saw clients travel and travel big, but 2023 is set to be bigger and bolder. During covid, we dreamt of escaping, exploring and adventuring; we created bucket lists and imagined multi-centre trips lasting weeks and months. These post-pandemic months have seen the world hanker over travelling the globe again with a reimagined sense of wanderlust.
Want excellent news? With travellers leaning towards longer, more meaningful and sustainable trips, clients also seem to be investing more readily in travel advisors to make their trips easier.
Winning! So read on and discover Travel Kinship’s top five travel themes driving booking trends for 2023 and beyond. We are reflecting these trends with exciting new products offered by our ever-expanding DMC portfolio.
The 2023 travel landscape is set to be varied - Travel Kinship is here to help you navigate your trickiest client demands, connecting you to the perfect DMC to make your guest’s 2023 holiday dreams come true.
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WELLNESS TRAVEL
Self-improvement, restoration, reconnection and sustainability are expected to be top-of-mind for travellers this year - last year people certainly travelled for fun, but we see a definite move towards consumers wanting to experience self-improvement, wellness in the wild and transformative experiences. Reconnection with ourselves, each other and nature. Here are a handful of example itineraries with wellness and mindful movement at their heart:
Slovenia Wellness Itinerary - Roundabout Experiences
Peru Wellness Itinerary - Tanit Trails
Nepal Wellness Itinerary - Responsible Travel
Luxury Surfing & Wellness - Villa-based trips worldwide - Luxe Surf
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OFF THE BEATEN TRACK
Richer engagement with local communities, searching for community-led experiences and seeking out rare experiences in remote destinations - people are actively looking for authentic and genuinely sustainable experiences that benefit the area and the people.
Deep diving into local culture and origins with the benefit of generating income and empowering local communities - these kinds of experiences give travellers an amazing insight into traditional ways of life and a better understanding of a destination’s diverse history.
Travel Kinship DMC’s have some incredible itinerary ideas and experiences that allow your clients to access these unique pockets of remote land and communities but with reassuring creature comfort and, in many instances, luxury touches.
Travel Kinship DMC’s have some incredible itinerary ideas and experiences that allow your clients to access these unique pockets of remote land and communities but with reassuring creature comfort and, in many instances, luxury touches.
Lake Natron Camp & Trekking, Tanzania - Adventure Portfolio
Avenue of the Volcanoes, Ecuador - Adventure International
Glamping and Hiking, Guatemala and Belize - Viaventure Central America
Northern Peru Diversity - Tanit Trails
Community Trekking in remote Nepal - Responsible Adventures
Oaxaca Coastal Adventure, Mexico - Rutopia
FAMILY TRAVEL
Family adventure is getting bolder with clients wanting to explore off-grid and feel the joy of shared unique experiences and moments that build life-long memories. Expect to see demand for purposeful travel, in which families forego the usual tourist-filled hot spots, opting instead for trips with deeper meaning. Having fun is so much more than beaches and ice creams - it’s sharing experiences of different cultures, trying new food, taking part in soft adventure together and feeling challenged by learning something new. Adventure, cultural immersion and activity breaks are on the rise
All our DMCs have wonderful experiences and accommodations for family trips, but here are a few to whet the appetite:
Peru Luxury Family Itinerary - Tanit Trails
Portugal Family Itinerary - Portugal by TravelTailors
Switzerland Family Itinerary - Watch and Cow
Nepal Family Mountains and Safari Itinerary - Responsible Adventures
Family Soft Adventure Itinerary Ideas from Adventure International
BACK TO NATURE
Nature as a focus in travel has been on the rise for many years but since we have emerged from lockdown and the blissfully silent months we spent in hibernation, one thing has become clear - we all miss that beautiful quiet, fresh air and the great expanse of the outdoors. The birdsong, the wind in the trees, the utter lack of planes in the sky and human noise. The gentle hum of nature calls, and we have the perfect immersive experiences to delight the keenest of the greenest.
Wilds of Costa Rica - Viaventure Central America
Nepal Wildlife itineraries - Responsible Adventures
Baja California Wildlife and Nature , Mexico - Rutopia
Slovenia - Combining Nature and Luxury - Roundabout Experiences
Peruvian Amazon, Done Differently - Tanit Trails
LUXURY TRAVEL
Despite many countries around the globe experiencing adverse economic climates, the appetite for travel is on the rise. In fact travel is something very few people are willing to sacrifice anymore. We are, in fact, seeing more defiant spending on ‘bucket-list’ experiences with absolutely no compromise on luxury and also on very unique, personalised, remote trips that are high ticket items that few people get to visit and experience.
Luxury Helicopter Expedition - Nepal - World's Highest Mountains - Responsible Adventures
Luxury Croatia by Land and Sea - Roundabout Experiences
Luxury in the Slovenian Alps - Roundabout Experiences
American National Parks - Luxury Mobile Safari Camps - Adventure Portfolio
This is just a small selection of products offered by Travel Kinship DMC’s. Please contact us if you would like to find out more about how our incredible DMCs can provide bespoke itineraries for your clients, whatever their needs.
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