{original image from tropical beach getaways} it seems like every year people are looking for more and more adventure. iceland? so 2009. prague? didn’t you go in 2005? faroe islands? better do it in 2016 before everyone else has! (faroe islands was actually on the 2015 list…) but seriously, dear readers, lonely planet has already…
Category: travel trends
travel trends: fall fun
it’s well into october now, and for those of us in the midwest and northeast and west, it means apple picking, pumpkin patches, haunted houses and a whole host of other fall adventures. you can go apple picking in the morning and spend the afternoon making your house smell deliciously cinnamony. am i guilty of…
travel trends: cuba
Cuba is the hottest thing this year. With the new American embassy open as of summer 2015, it’s easier than ever for Americans to legally travel to Cuba, and the percentage of Americans who say they will or want to visit Cuba has risen 4% over the last year. Of course, people have been travelling…
travel trends + foodie week: food tourism
{image from the culinary travel guide} mash up post! in my research for travel trends lately, one thing that has consistently popped up is food tourism. back when this term was first coined, they called it culinary tourism, but stopped “because our research showed that it gave a misleading impression. while “culinary” technically can be…
travel trends: small-ship cruises
one travel trend we haven’t talked about yet is the cruise industry. travel + leisure considers river cruising to be a top trend for 2015, along with free wi-fi on board, more amenities (both gratis and paid for,) river cruising (huge!), and cruises to more and more adventurous places. cruises are among the fastest…
travel trends: the staycation
if you have started to hear more and more of your friends and coworkers say that they took a “staycation” last weekend with their family/spouse, you aren’t alone. google trends reported a 10% increase in web searches for staycations in 2014 (and if you want graphs, white hutchinson has some good ones.) staycations are typically…
travel trends: personal photographers
gone are the days when people packed multiple rolls of film, or bought them at their destinations, then returned home to drop the rolls off at the 1-hour photo kiosk in walmart. even starting to disappear are the days of the selfie stick (thank god.) these days, the trend is a personal, travel photographer. yes,…
welcome!
hi – and welcome to my blog! i noticed i’ve gotten a lot of new readers lately, and i wanted to find out a little bit about YOU. so, if you don’t mind… leave a comment below and tell me where you’re from and how you heard about paper, ink and passports. or, you can…
travel tips: traveling with your pets
{image from merry traveller} the pet industry is huge and only growing bigger. we take our cats and dogs to spas, feed them organic, gluten-free food, treat their illnesses as we would ourselves and generally spoil most pets rotten. airports have been required to have pet facilities for service animals since 2009 and a lot…
travel trends: wellness travel
{image from do you yoga} think back your last out-of-town vacation, no matter how short it was. did you curl up on the hotel’s sofa (or bed) and binge watch netflix all day while eating hot pockets? or did you go for a hike, try a new restaurant, maybe get a swim or a snorkel…