Travel Trends for 2016

                 8 Coming Travel Trends for 2016

"Trends, like horses, are easier to ride in the direction they are going." -- John Naisbitt

We live in unsettling times. Frankly, who really knows what is going on -- let alone what will be -- and the world of travel trends is no different. No one has a proverbial crystal ball.

Over the years, I have annually tried to formulate upcoming travel trends that I see emerging over the horizon.

Travel metric analysis is not original in the era of Big Data, with the likes of: the Robinson Crusoe Index identifying the best beaches, the Big Mac Index that costs out burgers globally, and the Bribe Payers Index, for negotiating the going get-out-of-jail rates.

Unsatisfied with those indicators, I look behind the curtain at some rather untraditional 21st century mashup travel metrics that have in the past warned you about: selfie drones, Hipster Holidays, peak-time pricing, marijuana tourism and off-the-grid travel.

What I found this past year are twin themes: firstly, the great 21st century era of disruption continues unabated, with potential game-changers looming. (Although some not so novel ideas have just been recycled, digitalized and repackaged by slick venture capitalists and PR folks.) The second noticeable theme at the close of 2015 is anger -- it seems everywhere! -- whether the result of global instability and violence, political paralysis and inflammatory campaign rhetoric, or pent up consumer frustration? Time will tell.

Here are a few Coming 8 Travel Trends to look for in 2016. First the good news:

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