2025 Travel Trends: The Inspiration Behind Choosing Travel Destinations

Ever wondered how your next travel adventure could be influenced by the stars, or even your favorite TV show? Join us for a captivating exploration of travel trends shaping 2025. We promise you'll uncover insights into how eco-tourism is not just a buzzword but a meaningful movement transforming the travel landscape. Imagine planning a getaway with the help of AI or experiencing the cosmos in newly designated dark sky parks—these are just some of the revelations awaiting you. Discover how silent retreats offer the perfect antidote to digital overload, and how locations featured in popular series like "Emily in Paris" and "Bridgerton" are climbing up everyone's travel bucket lists. 

Have you ever been struck by the spontaneous urge to visit a place simply because it resonates with your values or appeared in your favorite film? We delve into the myriad inspirations behind choosing travel destinations. Whether drawn by personal values, serendipitous whims, or the allure of exotic locales from the screen, your travel choices have stories to tell. We invite you to share these stories and inspirations in our Facebook group, a community brimming with wanderlust and fresh perspectives. Together, let's enrich our understanding of the motivations that guide our journeys across the globe.

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• 0:00 Travel Trends for 2025
• 8:29 Choosing Travel Destinations With Inspiration

Transcript

Speaker 0: 0:24

Hello, sister travelers. Well, as we are winding down this year, it's almost the end of the year, it's almost 2025. Have you started thinking about where you're going to go in 2025? Well, I have, but I wanted to share with you I've came across some travel trends for 2025. Now, this list is more of a general list. I want you to stay tuned for next week, where I do my favorite episode of picking destinations that are trending. But this episode is going to give you some generalizations of what inspires people to travel to certain destinations. That's the question and I am curious. So I did some research and you know, as we know, 2024 revenge travel had leveled off and we did see, of course, still a continued increase of female solo travelers in 2024. And that is not stopping ladies, so let's just keep that trend rising.

Speaker 0: 1:31

But I wanted to share some of the other reasons why people travel and pick specific types of travel or certain types of destinations. The first one is you're going to see in 2025, more eco tourism or sustainability type of tourism. Now, this is travel that is responsible travel and mindful of the impact they are having on local people, animals and businesses. It includes accommodations that might use green practices, renewable energy, and you might even travel by land as opposed to air, because airline travel does produce a lot of admissions and you know if you're really eco-friendly. That might be contention as to how you travel and where you go. There is ways to also do volunteerism, where you can volunteer for, maybe, a conservation organization and really give back in this ecotourism trend that is happening now. So maybe that is what is inspiring you to travel. That would be one reason we're going to see a lot more of that in 2025. That would be one reason we're going to see a lot more of that in 2025.

Speaker 0: 2:53

2025 is also going to bring a lot more tech and AI planning of travel. Have you tried using AI for planning a trip? I talk a little bit about it in episode 102, in which I share how you can use it, kind of the pitfalls, what to watch out for and how to feed it prompts that will continue to give you the best answers. I have started using it a little bit more more so just to give me travel ideas for specific places. It helps to sort of comb that whole internet to instead of you doing a whole ton of research. It's very helpful in that way. However, once you get those tips from AI, always follow up and just check to do your research, make sure maybe, if they recommend a certain business, make sure it's still in business, those kind of things. So definitely it's a trend. It definitely will save you time.

Speaker 0: 3:50

Number three we're going to see a lot more of cosmic getaways, or what we call astro tourism. So we noticed this last year, in 2024, when there was a huge draw for people to travel to see the solar eclipse. Most of that was seen in the North American continent. So I think there's one coming up 2025 that will cross parts of Europe I think Spain and Portugal, I don't quite remember but so these types of events are huge. A lot of people are following these. There's the A3 comet that people are following. There's, of course, the Northern Lights. We know that's so popular and this year 2024, they saw a spike in how often people would see the Northern Lights, meaning how often they would display themselves. But they're expecting that there's going to be more of that in 2025. There's going to be more opportunities to see the Northern Lights. So planning your trip there. There's also people really into sort of the the space shuttle launches, and so they could go places to watch those as well Could also just be a way to do some stargazing somewhere, and so stargazing has become just kind of a big part of astro tourism, in that people are traveling to places that are dark enough to see the sky, and so in 2023, actually 20 new international dark sky parks were designated worldwide, and those range from North America to Europe to China, and this is just a growing trend in travel destinations for people looking for low light pollution areas so that they can do really good star gazing.

Speaker 0: 5:43

Another trend that we are seeing is people going on what's called silent travel, and so this is a move actually away from touristy destinations. We've kind of started seeing that, but it's become a thing and they've kind of given it a name now. But it's a place to disconnect, rest, sleep and truly become. You know, at least for us Americans who work really hard and we are usually stressed out to fully like really have a true vacation where we can totally relax. This might include forest bathing, it might include stargazing camps that they have out there, or even just a general longer trip, sometimes maybe a month long, where you can truly disconnect. There's even silent retreats that you could possibly attend, so this is where you can fully disconnect from your phone, from the internet, and just kind of reset yourself. Honestly, I've done that and it's amazing.

Speaker 0: 6:48

The final reason people will be inspired to travel to specific destinations in 2025, and this is a huge trend and it's movie and show inspired locations trend and it's movie and show inspired locations. So these are, of course, locations where you have watched a movie or a show and you've been inspired by that location. Here are some examples. One of my favorites, of course, is Emily in Paris, and so obviously it's shot in Paris, but this past season it was also in Rome, so you got Paris and Rome inspired travel there. Another favorite show of mine is Bridgerton, and that is was shot in Bath, england or Greenwich, so those are two places that are getting a lot more tourist people. Paddington three was shot in Peru, so we're seeing more people going to Peru because of that.

Speaker 0: 7:43

White Lotus oh, these are several places. I guess I have not watched White Lotus, but apparently each season is maybe shot in a different place. There's Maui, sicily, and season four, very popular. This is actually already a semi-popular place, but it's Koh Samui in Thailand, so that is a beautiful area and White Lotus has inspired more people to go there. And then Gladiator movie right, that has recently come out, and so again we're looking at Rome, the Colosseum. However, they have used Morocco and Malta, so we're seeing a lot of people wanting to go to those places as well.

Speaker 0: 8:30

So what inspires you to travel to a certain destination? Do you have a method of how you pick a place, or do you get inspiration from TV shows, from other people, based on your values, maybe you do, you want to do eco tourism instead now, or you like the touristy places that you see in those magazines or travel and leisure. I would love to actually hear what inspires you and what makes you decide on a certain destination. I do have a little method to my madness at times and sometimes I'm just sort of led by inspiration internal inspiration sometimes as well so I'd love to hear you can join my Facebook group, so if you're part of my Facebook group, then I will pose that question this week and you can add your comments and answer. I would love to hear those. I hope 2025. You have started planning some of your travel, but stay tuned for next week when I get very specific on some top 10 destinations for solo travelers for 2025.