Luxury travel trends

0:00How is the other half traveling? There are some travel trends that are expected to define 2027. Okay. This is according to Misty Bells, who is a virtuoso's vice president of global public relations. Oh, it's a travel agency. Okay. Fall is gonna be the new summer September, October, and beyond used to be the not the place, not the time to travel, but that is ending. We're now gonna be traveling in the fall. Makes sense just because I feel like summer's getting too hot. Mm-hmm. So more pleasant to travel in the fall. Festive travel is gonna be a pretty big deal this coming year, meaning traveling just for holidays, like going away to Hawaii or the Caribbean for Christmas. Oh, you like that? That's a good idea. Maybe I need to play in a Christmas vacation. See, I don't know. I'm so traditional whenever it comes to the holidays. Like, I love, I've only spent, maybe three Christmases outside of my hometown,

1:00a Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. And recently, my mom had mentioned, you know, someday your dad and I are gonna move away from Harrisburg, is that gonna make you sad? And I was like, well, yeah, but don't not move away, just because I'll be sad about it. Also, I don't feel like you really like travel. Like, I think that's the difference. I love travel. So it's like, of course, I want to spend Christmas in Hawaii, who doesn't? This one, as far as luxury travel trends are concerned, private clubs in hotels are the new villas. Oh, that's too many. Like, that feels like I'm expected to mingle and meet people. And like, if I meet people on vacation fine, I met lots of people on my Key West vacation, but like, I'm not forcing myself to do it. Also, all inclusives are kinda gonna go the wayside. Instead of a one size fits all, all inclusive model. More resorts are adopting a different program bundle. See, that is so irritate. And that feels like inflation at work, because I have not had an all-inclusive trip in a long time.

2:01It was one of where I was a kid and my parents and grandparents were paying for it. And it was the best. And I was like, one day, I'm gonna be able to afford an all-inclusive vacation. And it seems like I'm never gonna reach that point because they're gonna do a little way with it before I can afford it. Okay, you're gonna glass half empty here. No surprise, Allison. That's kinda your thing. But I will say, do you think this might be able to help you out because you don't drink anymore and all-inclusive, like, you're paying for a lot of alcohol that you wouldn't be drinking? So if you can rework the cost of everything. I don't know, I guess. We'll have to see what these bundles look like. And cities are back. People have stopped traveling to cities after the pandemic, but now people are really embracing going to cities just to be a tourist in them. I feel like the trend that's, I think this is all garbage. This is just what this travel agency wants to happen. I feel like what's really made a comeback since COVID. And like, I know I'm like this

3:02and all the other people who like to travel that I know are like this. We're like, after COVID, it was like, do what you've always wanted to do. Book that trip, book that cruise. Just do it because you don't know when it's gonna be taken away.