Travel Innovation and Future Trends

Following Market segments that will travel the most:

Global Executive

Active Elders

Cosmopolitan Commuters

Global Clans

Global ExecutiveThey are the Elite business travellers that want a private jet-type experience, predominantly from emerging economic markets which will see significant growth in the next decade

Active Elders

They will be the wealthy, healthy, older travellers, aged between 50 to 75 who will travel for cultural and leisure pursuits, driven by large disposable incomes.

Cosmopolitan Commuters

Who will live in one city or small town and work in a metropolis. They will use fast trains or taxis to commute to work.

Global Clans

People that will increasingly use air travel to visit globally dispersed extended family members that will increase due to explosion of migration for employment or study

The future

More people will travel

New destination will emerge

Special-interested travel will increase

“Flash” travel will grow

Health oriented travel will be popular

Space travel will become reality

Technology will enhance travel in ways we cant imagine

More people will travel

Although, occasional, disturbing events can reduce travel dramatically, within a year or two it will almost certainly come back and exceed previous levels.

The urge to travel has become a powerful one, not easily deterred

In fact, many experts believe that travel never abates; it merely changes.

New destination will emerge

There are places out there right now, that you’ve never heard of that will be hugely popular in a decade or two.

And some that are extremely popular today will eventually lode their luster and become passé.

Special-interested travel will increase

The “global village” we now live in permits people in diverse place but with common interests to communicate easily.

Tie this to the fact that today’s travelersoften define themselves by their product selection and have a surge of special-interest travel.

Special-interest travel is often called niche travel

“Flash” travel will grow

Flash travel refers to short trips that consumer buys after a pop-up ad, e-mail offer, blog recommendation, or other electronic message.

Flash travel purchases tend to be quick, inexpensive, inexpensive getaways that are the result of a spur-of-the- moment decision.

Health oriented travel will be popular

The desire to get away from it all and visit calming, healthy places will become even greater.

Space travel will become reality

Already a few very rich individuals have travelled into space on Russian rockets.

Suborbital flights may soon be possible, permitting people to travel from London to New York City in less than an hour.

Technology will enhance travel in ways we cant imagine Picture this: You are thinking of going to a Carribean

resort.

You go to the internet.

She ask for permission to use your avatar

You email it to her

Then there you are, at the each of the two resort, lying by the pool, dinning at a wonderful buffet, dancing the night away. Its like a TV show, hosted by the travel agent starring you.

Space Travel Billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson’s space tourism venture, Virgin Galactic and the National Aeronautic Space Administration have announced plans to activate hypersonic travel between earth-based cities. The Cosmo Plane will be a successor to the Concorde and will make adventurous travellers to go further and faster.

Hypersonic speeds are five times the speed of sound.An Aircraft flying that fast could theoretically reach London from New York in less than an hour. This will need the planes to fly at extreme altitudes necessary for hypersonic travel.

A “ budget rocket” is being developed by PayPal founder of the internet financial services.The 68-foot booster rocket called Falcon has already blasted off from the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands and successfully arrived in space minute later.This is the forerunner of a re-usable launch vehicle that will take tourists into space by 2012.

Virgin Galactic is planning to have passenger service on its first spaceship, the VSS Enterprise.With its inaugural launch in 2008 and the main flights in 2009, the first 100 people will pay $200,000, the next 900 people will pay between $100,000 and $175,000 and everyone after that will pay $20,000.Virgin Galactic will be the first private space tourism company to regularly send civilians into space by training them for 3 days before launch.

Are working to send manned spacecraft on commercial circumlunar missions by 2008. Their offer would include a week-long stay at their Space Hotel, the ISS and a trip around the moon. The initial price would be $100 million but will soon reduce as re-useable transport is developed

Constellation Services International and Space Adventures Ltd.

Cruise Liners will be much demand for the future.

Four Cruise Liners

Carnival

Norwegian

Princess

Royal Caribbean

Carnival Freedom It will have 13 decks, 1160 foot

long and 110,000 tons displacement will carry 3000 passengers.

It will have exotic decor.

Each public area will evoke a different era

London circa 1880 in the Victorian Show Lounge

17th century France and the court of Louis XIV in the Sun King Supper Club

A Casino recalling ancient Babylon with the hanging gardens and Ishtar Gate and a Las Vegas styled trip.

The liner will cruise the Mediterranean Sea.

Norwegian Pearl A 93,000 ton cruise liner will have a simulated golf

link and a climbing wall high above the waves for the cliff hangers

The ship will have a bowling alley with four full-length lanes and a sports bar with flat screen TV’s and an ultra-lounge experience.

It will have 10 restaurants, 14 bars and lounges and accommodation for almost 2400 passengers.

The ship will sail at the Caribbean Islands and between Seattle and Skagway, Alaska.

Norwegian Pearl

Emerald Princess Will also offer a 12-day itinerary in the

Greek Islands and the Western Mediterranean.

113,000 ton vessel will feature amenities from a piazza-style atrium to a night club of 15 decks above the waves.

3100 passengers will have access to 11 restaurants , at least as many bars and dozens of other public spaces.

Other amenities will include an Asian style spa, Gatsby-themed casino and Movies under the Stars on a 300 square foot outdoor screen above the pool.

It will also have a fitness centre, jogging track and five swimming pools.

Emerald Princess

Emerald Princess Atrium and Piazza

mini suites had king and two twin beds with a separate seating area, two television sets and large bathroom with a tub.

Liberty of Seas 160,000 ton ship with accommodation for

3643 passengers will be the largest cruise ship in the world.

Longer than the height of the Chrysler Building, wider than the White House and heavier than 32,000 adult elephants.

It will offer a seven-day Caribbean Cruise.

It will have a five-story theatre, two storey discotheque and 20 restaurants.

It will also have boxing rink, climbing wall, indoor skating rink and a Flowrider surf park which uses a high-powdered stream of water to create a continuous wave for ten surfers.

A gargantuan 220,000 tons for 5400 passengers is being planned for a launch in 2009.

The cruise liners will only get bigger and more exotic holiday havens in the future.

Liberty of the Seas

Air Travel Industry is on the verge of a new

era. Rising fuel costs, shrinking services

and a severely stressed air traffic system have called for a new solution.

It comes in the form of Airbus 380 and Boeing 787 and microjets

Airbus 380

Is 80 feet high, 240 feet long and 260 feet wide from wing-tip to wing-tip.

Like and airborne double-decker bus, the super jumbo jet will offer 50% more floor space.

It will carry 550-850 passengers( based on the model).

It will fly at range of 8000 miles.

It will have a cocktail lounge, fitness centre, fully-stocked duty-free shop

Some flights will also have an onboard casion

In addition, there are lobby-like lounges with sofas and big screen TV’s, conference rooms with AV equipment and high speed internet.

microjets

Microjets that will act as air taxis and hopping a microjet will be as easy someday as hailing taxi.

Air taxis already exist using turbo-prop planes and smaller airports to provide on-demand service for regional travel.

The future will have “very light jets”(VLJs).

(VLJs) outfitted with four to eight seats, these jets are designed to provide direct, on-demand service to destinations up to 1300 miles away.

Boeing 787

is a long-range, mid-size wide-body, twin-engine jet airliner developed by Boeing Commercial Airplanes

Its variants seat 210 to 335 passengers.

The 787’s cabin windows are larger in area than any other civil air transport in-service or in development, with dimensions of 10.7 by 18.4 in( 27 by 47 cm) and a higher eye level so passengers can maintain a view of the horizon.

Activity: Predicting the Future

A “total recall” device that would allow people to mentally visit anywhere on earth- without ever actually going anywhere.

An aircraft with a fuselage that’s completely transparent. The walls are like clear glass and passengers can look out in almost every direction.

A time machine that can take you anywhere in the past or future.