BLOG#2 Tourism trend in 2025 and beyond

      

      During 2013, TIA is leading a project to create Tourism 2025, a national tourism framework.

We are working with both the private sector and public sector to develop this inspirational, challenging and measurable framework that will unite and inspire the industry to adapt and succeed.

      It will provide a clear sense of long-term direction, with a firm focus on growth, value, increased private sector investment, improved sector productivity and public sector support, all underpinning a sustainable superior visitor experience.

Implementing Tourism 2025

      We are now focused on creating and obtaining industry endorsement for the actions that will bring Tourism 2025 to life. The actions we endorse must be pragmatic, affordable and valuable.

We recognise that we are operating in a fast-changing global and domestic tourism environment. The actions will have a short focus - one to three years - with scope for all tourism industry players, from big corporate to SMEs, 

to play their part.

We are looking to identify:

• actions that are already underway and/or can be done quickly
• actions that are significant enough to treat as projects that need to be initiated
• high level strategic plans that will require broad industry endorsement

Tourism Futures International is a research-oriented company specialising in the future of aviation, travel and tourism. The company's philosophy is that good strategic intelligence underpins good strategy. We help our clients understand the business environment, plan for the future and stay ahead in a constantly changing world.

Holidays of the future: A glimpse at how tourists might travel in 2030

Holidays could be going up in the world, literally. 

      By 2030, families could be boarding giant airships that contain spacious apartments and hover above popular destinations. 

      Like cruise ships in the sky, the 'zero-impact' floating holiday resorts would have bars and restaurants on board and could glean energy from the surrounding natural elements to power them from resort to resort. A special airship garden would even provide fresh fruit for the rooms.

      Thomson Holidays commissioned trend forecaster The Future Laboratory to produce the Sustainable Holiday Futures report, a detailed guide to how we might travel in 20 years' time.

      Like Tom Hanks in hit film The Terminal, we could also soon be flying to the airport for a holiday at the, erm, airport. 

      The report suggests that some of the world's largest airports could become destinations in their own right with all the entertainment and accommodation of a small town available in one 'aeroville' setting.

And what might a hotel room in 2030 look like? Well, there would be innovative energy-saving features galore. 

      Bathrooms would use water from the washbasin and the shower for flushing the toilet and high-tech windows would allow guests to block out the sun's glare, reducing the need for both curtains and air conditioning. 

Lights would be powered by wind and solar energy and a heat-activated multi-touchscreen could be used to communicate with everything from energy use to resort activities open for discussion.

      There's good news for those worried about their carbon footprint too. Second-generation bio-fuels created from algae and blended with jet fuel could be potent enough to power holiday jets without causing excessive harmful emissions.

      Welcome to the future: Hotel guests could find such high-tech gadgetry as a communications board and a health check bathroom mirror as standard in rooms.