Due to the global pandemic in the last two years travel had taken a backseat in everyone’s life. But, there are travelers who are hoping for a better year for the travel and tourism industry. While 2021 was the year that witnessed a rise in local travel, staycations, and a move towards sustainability. The year 2022 is expected to amplify these travel trends even further. With the tourism industry slowly making a comeback, it appears that new travel trends will be here to stay in 2022. Safety will continue to be important, while self-care and mindful travel will dominate the charts.

Travel to unwind

Focus on self-care will be prioritized this year. So travel will be undertaken to improve mental and emotional well-being. This could be due to being stuck indoors due to the pandemic while being surrounded by uncertainties and isolation. 2022 is all about recharging one’s body and unwinding the mind.

Sustainable tourism

Sustainable travel will continue to be a part and parcel of travel enthusiasts who will try to combine environmental and social awareness with their passion to travel. People will choose activities with local grassroots organizations to go for volunteer opportunities and will give importance to community-based tourism.

Workcations

When the pandemic hit, offices moved to normalize remote working and much-combined work and leisure to the hills for the perfect workcation – work + vacation. 2022 will continue to see a rise in people wanting to take back their vacations, making them strictly for leisure and not work. And with people working round the clock more hours from the four walls of their homes than they would have in the office and taking fewer holidays, 2022 can expect people to take more breaks seriously and be completely away from their laptops and work.

Roadtrips

Road trips to neighboring cities will increase in 2022. Which also is a sign of the rise of domestic travel. People find it safer traveling in their own vehicles due to the pandemic. Self-driven vehicles, whether personal or rented, are what travelers will go for when they go for weekend getaways.

Unexplored and hidden destinations

Another significant change would be exploring new places in 2022 among travellers who want to discover hidden destinations.

People continue to prefer to visit undiscovered destinations, which promotes tourism.

A rise in demand for homestays and staycation

Demand for homestays and staycations will also increase this year among couples, friends, and families with more and more people wanting to travel safely and staying at smaller places with less exposure to other people.

Witnessing new places and new faces

The pandemic has surrounded us by loved ones and taught the importance of human interactions. Still, in 2022, vacations will mean visiting new places, meeting new people, and broadening one’s social circles.

2022 looks like the year people will go all-out and say yes to every travel opportunity that comes with a long weekend as long as it fits their budget. With people being open to different types of vacation than before as well as to trips that suit their taste, as long as they get a chance to be away from the four walls of their home.2022 will all be about embracing this unpredictability and setting new travel trends.

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