Today's travel trends reflect where persons are traveling, who they’re traveling with, and what they need to do on a visit.

“People are taking more trips and talking about it with their friends,” said Randy Yaroch, CEO and owner of The Travel Society in Greenwood Village. “Then when you add social media to the mix, it really emphasizes the way people decide where to travel next.”

Knowing what the trends are will be reassuring and provoking – resembling for ladies traveling alone – or possibly lead to creating different decisions – resembling deciding to avoid traditional Western European favorites due to the crowds.

Yaroch's Travel Society is a member of Virtuoso, a world network of agencies specializing in luxury and experiential travel with 1000’s of travel advisors. A travel advisor is comparable to the travel agents of the past, but offers more advice and insight.

“Travel agents were just taking orders, but in today's world they have become professional advisors, more like advisors who exclusively curate travel itineraries,” Yaroch explained. While travel advisors typically work with premium to ultra-luxury clients, Yaroch says they may also assist with more basic trips like booking an all-inclusive package and transportation to and from a resort.

When working with clients, Yaroch and his team concentrate to trends and consider how this information will be used to offer their clients the most effective trip possible.

Virtuoso recently published a travel trends report and uncovered some interesting insights:

• Domestic travel dominates in fall 2024, but international travel continues to interrupt records: Canada saw a 168% year-over-year increase and Japan saw a 160% increase.
• In some hotspots, the weather is cooling down a bit, so this fall might be the best time to travel to Napa, California. Amsterdam or Taormina, Sicily.
• Interest in the vacation or “festive” season continues to see interest in Mexico, Hawaii, Anguilla and Costa Rica, with countries resembling St. Lucia, the Dominican Republic and Grenada seeing a double to triple increase. Although Maui, Hawaii saw a decline in travelers following the devastating fires in 2023, there’s a 23% increase in fall bookings and a 32% increase for the vacation season.
• These ultra-luxury travelers search for expedition cruises, exotic destinations like Fiji or Thailand, and African safaris. This group is motivated to travel for celebrations and once-in-a-lifetime experiences.
• Have you heard of “coolcations”? According to Virtuoso, it is a trend of visiting colder climates in the summertime (think Canada or Northern Europe), which saw a 44% increase. Traditionally warmer places like Greece saw a really slight decline in visitor numbers.
• While women traveling alone will not be a brand new trend, each Virtuoso and Yaroch have recognized it and noted that it has spread from baby boomers to all generations. “They are looking for like-minded people to travel with,” Yaroch said. “They travel to all continents and seek adventure travel or gentle adventures such as expedition cruises.”
• It's not only that folks need to travel off the beaten path, but additionally they attempt to avoid places that suffer from overtourism. This means they seek travel within the “off season” or off-peak, for instance traveling to South America as an alternative of Europe. “Service will be better in the off-season and prices will go down,” Yaroch said.
• Although Instagram and other social media platforms can have an influence on travelers, Virtuoso's report found “a notable shift from a focus on a travel to-do list to an emphasis on feelings while traveling,” they noted found that 77% of travelers prioritize curiosity and exploration.

Closer to home, the Colorado Tourism Office commissions a report yearly and learned that there was a rise in visitors to Colorado in 2023 with 93.3 million visitors – a 4% increase from 2022. Other highlights included:

• 38% of holiday makers to Colorado in 2023 came over family and/or friends, with only 12% citing nature as the first purpose of their trip.
• However, 60% of holiday makers said that outdoor activities were crucial activity (if not their purpose), 58% entertainment, 40% culture and 30% sport. Surprisingly, shopping was a top activity at 23% versus mountain climbing/backpacking at 16%.
• The overwhelming majority of holiday makers returned – 85% of overnight guests were repeat visitors in 2023 and 62% visited within the last 12 months.

Their report doesn't show which specific cities or towns are seeing more visitors, but Dean Runyan Associates' annual report “The Economic Impact of Travel in Colorado” offers some insight: Denver saw the best spending, up 4.8%.

“Travellers choose Denver because it offers the best of both worlds,” said Justin Bresler, vp and chief marketing officer at Visit Denver. “The city is an urban destination in its own right, and the appeal of all there is to do in the nearby Rocky Mountains makes us an even more compelling choice.”

Originally published: October 2, 2024 at 12:09 p.m

Today is Monday, July twenty second, the 204th day of the yr 2024. There are 162 days left within the yr.

Today’s highlight of the story:

On July 22, 1933, pilot Wiley Post landed at Floyd Bennett Field in New York City and accomplished the primary solo flight around the globe in 7 days, 18 hours and 49 minutes.

Also on this date:

In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln presented a preliminary draft of the Emancipation Proclamation to his cabinet.

In 1934, bank robber John Dillinger was shot dead by federal agents outside the Biograph Theater in Chicago, where he had just seen the Clark Gable film “Manhattan Melodrama.”

In 1937, the U.S. Senate rejected President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal so as to add more justices to the Supreme Court.

In 1942, the Nazis began deporting Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka concentration camp.

In 1943, American forces under General George S. Patton captured Palermo, Sicily during World War II.

In 1975, the House of Representatives voted with the Senate to revive the American citizenship of Confederate General Robert E. Lee.

In 1991, Milwaukee police arrested Jeffrey Dahmer, who later confessed to murdering 17 men and boys.

In 1992, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escaped from his luxury prison near Medellin (meh-deh-YEEN'). (He was murdered by security forces in December 1993.)

In 1999, the four-day Woodstock 99 music festival began. The event was ultimately marred by destruction and violence by concertgoers amid lax security measures and oppressive heat.

In 2011, Anders Breivik (AHN'-durs BRAY'-vihk), a self-described “militant nationalist,” massacred 69 people on a youth resort island in Norway after detonating a bomb in nearby Oslo that killed eight more people, the worst act of violence within the country since World War II.

In 2015, a federal grand jury indicted Dylann Roof, accused of killing nine black church members in Charleston, South Carolina. He was charged with 33 counts, including hate crimes that might warrant the death penalty against him. (Roof can be the primary person sentenced to death for a federal hate crime; he’s on death row in a federal prison in Indiana.)

In 2022, Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump, was present in contempt of court for failing to comply with a subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 rebellion on the U.S. Capitol. (Bannon is currently serving his four-month sentence in a federal prison.)

Today's birthdays:

• Author Tom Robbins is 92.
• Actor Terence Stamp is 86.
• Singer George Clinton is 83.
• Actor and singer Bobby Sherman is 81.
• Former Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, Republican Senator from Texas, is 81.
• The film author and director Paul Schrader is 78.
• Actor Danny Glover is 78.
• Singer Mireille Mathieu is 78.
• Actor, comedian and director Albert Brooks is 77.
• Rock singer Don Henley is 77.
• Author SE Hinton is 76.
• Film composer Alan Menken is 75.
• Jazz musician Al Di Meola (mee-OH'-lah) is 70.
• Actor Willem Dafoe is 69.
• Actor John Leguizamo is 64.
• R&B singer Keith Sweat is 63.
• Folk singer Emily Saliers (Indigo Girls) is 61.
• Actor and comedian David Spade is 60.
• Actor Rhys Ifans (rees EYE'-fanz) is 57.
• The actor/singer Jaime Camil is 51.
• Singer Rufus Wainwright is 51.
• The actress Franka Potente (poh-TEN'-tay) is 50.
• Actress Selena Gomez is 32.
• NFL running back Ezekiel Elliott is 29.
• The British Prince George of Wales is 11.

Originally published: July 22, 2024 at 01:00

More and more travelers are discovering the thrill of traveling alone this 12 months: New data from Squaremouth shows that 42% of travelers are planning a visit alone this 12 months.

The travel insurance comparison site surveyed greater than 2,600 customers about their views on solo travel and located that 87% of solo travellers travel abroad. Only 13% of solo travellers wish to travel domestically.

When many individuals consider solo travel, they often consider lonely backpackers staying in hostels to lower your expenses on their European trips, but that's not the case for everybody. In fact, 53% of solo travelers expect to spend over $3,000 on their vacation.

We've been writing concerning the rise of solo travel for several years, but in 2024, the interest of travelers setting off to find the world on their very own will grow even further: Many travel corporations are subsequently considering more options for solo travelers, for instance, cruise lines are constructing latest ships with more single cabin categories.

Additionally, the Adventure Travel Trade Association's 2024 Industry Outlook found that ladies over 50 are leading the solo travel trend. Younger women are also a giant a part of the trend. Travel company Contiki reported in 2023 that 62% of its solo trips were booked by women ages 18 to 35.

However, traveling alone also brings with it its concerns: 46% of solo travelers are primarily concerned about encountering a medical emergency during their trip, and one other 22% are fearful concerning the crime rate and the way secure they could be alone.

“Now more than ever, travelers are choosing to travel solo,” says Jenna Hummer, PR Director at Squaremouth. “With the busy summer travel season just around the corner, it's important that solo travelers know how to protect themselves and their expenses while on vacation.”

Squaremouth recommends purchasing travel insurance that features trip cancellation insurance, travel medical insurance for international travel, and insurance that features identity theft protection to assist you should you lose necessary IDs, credit or debit cards.

In addition, for travelers who travel somewhere on their very own, travel insurance with 24-hour roadside assistance is beneficial.

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