New Year, New Goals: What Should Your New Year’s Travel Resolution Be?
New Year, New Goals: What Should Your New Year’s Travel Resolution Be?
As we approach a new year, our thoughts often turn to travel memories from the past 12 months, and even regrets. Is there something you wish you’d tried? Are you setting your sights on new travel goals for 2016? Whether you have a goal in mind or are looking for guidance, try our quiz below to find out which resolution you should be making!
As we approach a new year, our thoughts often turn to travel memories from the past 12 months, and even regrets. Is there something you wish you’d tried? Are you setting your sights on new travel goals for 2016? Whether you have a goal in mind or are looking for guidance, try our quiz below to find out which resolution you should be making!
As you look back at your holidays of 2015, what did you appreciate most?
How would your friends describe you on holiday?
Pick an essential item for your trip
From the following choices, what’s your ideal meal when away?
You arrive at the airport and your transfer hasn't turned up, do you:
Which souvenir are you most likely to come home with?
Learn a new language
Learn a new language
Seize the opportunity to embrace a new country and a new language. Learning a different dialect is an admirable quality, for both your own development and for showing respect to the country you’re visiting. Locals appreciate the effort you make, you’ll have fun practising and it’s also shown to enhance brain health. Learning the basics will always be noticed and you’ll feel invigorated for giving it a try.
Travel out of your comfort zone
Travel out of your comfort zone
If you’re a holiday-goer who loves to visit the same place year-on-year, then 2016 could be the ideal opportunity to try a destination outside your regular locations. If you’re a seasoned beach worshipper, why not try a ski holiday? Or explore a place and culture you’d never even dreamt of before? Spin that globe and, wherever it lands, try it out!
Have a tech-free holiday
Have a tech-free holiday
Can’t switch off from work and home life while on your travels? Make this a year to truly switch off by going tech-free during a trip. Take a true break and find a tranquil retreat, or simply opt for not using your phone or tablet for a certain period of time. Go old school with a book and turn off social media (until you return and share your holiday snaps, of course), sit back and relax.
Connect with communities
Connect with communities
On your new adventure, why not get in touch with charities and organisations that work with local communities like Projects Abroad or GVI ? A unique way to travel, get to know the culture and embrace the people, cuisine, sights and smells around you. You’ll certainly appreciate this aspect of your trip, whilst bringing back poignant memories.
Engage in a new sport
Engage in a new sport
If lying on a sun lounger is as the peak of your holiday exertions, make this a year to experience a new sport. Try surfing in the Maldives or skiing in the Alps to feel the rush of adrenalin, and tick a personal challenge off the bucket list. If both of these activities feel like a giant leap forward, slower-paced sports such as canoeing or cycling are two great ways to explore your surroundings in a different way.
Take more photographs
Take more photographs
Keep hold of your memories by getting into travel photography. It’s simple, just take more pictures! Put down your phone and invest in a proper camera to ensure your images are picture-perfect, or revert back to using film to transform how you take pictures. The more you click, the better you’ll get, so get snapping in the New Year and see what you can achieve!