Luxury Adventure Travel
With the end of 2011 fast approaching, it’s time for end of year lists and forecasts for the new year. Kensington Tours polled its Destination Experts for the travel trends they predict and its team, which creates custom designed, privately guided tours and cruise holidays to more than 90 countries worldwide, came back with a variety of 12 and 1/2 insightful new trends and tips for vacation planning in 2012.
1. The Golden Age Of Travel – Bringing It Back
Nostalgia and a reminiscence of the past have already been quite hot these past few years, and that won’t be different in 2012. Travellers want authenticity, high-end consumers are looking to voyage back through time to the golden age of travel. “Journeys reminiscent of the romantic, adventure style of old are extremely popular,” notes Kensington’s expert Brad Crockett. “Affluent travelers are interested in the old world elegance of train journeys, classic desert camps, and mobile safaris where they sleep under the stars.”
2. Customized Heritage Tours – Getting To The Root of IT
Bookings coming on strong for 2012 often focus on the guest’s interest in their genealogical past and want to trace family lineage and explore their ancestral homelands. “Scotland, Ireland, Germany, Poland, France, Italy and Russia are all extremely popular due to emigration around World War II,” says Kensington’s Europe Expert Eimear Duggan.
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Get the ultimate heli ski adventure with a yacht-based heliskiing vacation tailored just to your specifications. Combine a luxury yacht charter with heli-ski trips up to the world’s highest peaks and explore the truly unexplored.
You can choose from a variety of yachts and luxurious accommodations around the world depending on where you want to go – whether it’s Alaska or British Columbia, or head over to Greenland and Iceland if you want! Your choice!
Elemental Adevntures offers fully-crewed yachts equipped to the highest standards with a full staff including catering. One of the advantages of boat-based heli skiing is that you always have the capacity to move and take your accommodations with you. From the protected inland waterways of Alaska and British Columbia to the rugged beauty of Greenland and Iceland the possibilities for exploration-style heli skiing are limitless.
For a totally new luxury vacation adventure, head to the wild bush of Alaska for an exhiliarting exploration of beautiful landscapes and wildlife always with the comfort of a top luxury lodge waiting for you at home. Add to that carefully prepared fresh meals of award winning cuisine and you’ve got the Within The Wild Adventure.
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Abercrombie and Kent is offering a special ultimate experience for the savvy traveler. These 30 Extreme Adventures are around the world and offer a variety of vacation opportunities for the adrenaline-seeker. The luxury vacation program from Abercrombie and Kent invites you to Brave Nature on 30 Extreme Adventures.
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Ideas about what makes an adventure have changed dramatically over time. Adventure was once thought to be the territory of explorers, the wealthy, and the celebrated. Today, adventure is seen as an individual pursuit, independently defined.
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Rim of Africa along with Bike & Saddle is now proud to bring you the Cederberg Odyssey, a unique 7-day biking and hiking adventure through the most precious parts of the Cederberg Mountain Range allowing for personal interactions with some of this landscape’s great personalities.
You can track leopard on foot, meander through lush valleys and over rocky outcrops, camp in luxury under the stars, ride across haunting semi-desert landscapes, marvel at ancient Bushmen rock paintings and finish off with the lap of luxury at the five-star Bushmans Kloof Wildlife Reserve.
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