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Preview Culture

Hightened product research and virtual previews let consumers judge value

Implications - In a down economy, big-ticket expenditures like vacations are viewed through a much more critical lens than when money flows more freely. Personalized experiences that are tailored to a traveler’s interests and interactive virtual previews let consumers assess a vacation’s value before taking the plunge.
Trend Themes
1. Virtual Previews - The trend of providing virtual tours to assess the value of big-ticket expenditure like vacation provides an opportunity for disruptive innovation to those who offer authentic and interactive virtual previews that allow a similar experience to physical tours.
2. Personalized Experiences - The trend of providing a personalized experience through tailored travel packages like "best job in the world" and female-only tours open opportunities for travel companies to disrupt the industry by creating unique and personalized travel experiences.
3. Text-based Tourism - The trend of text-based tourism like keyword-based virtual tourism provides an opportunity for travel companies to leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning to create predictive and adaptive personalized tourist itineraries that can cater to the specific needs and preferences of each traveler.
Industry Implications
1. Travel and Tourism - Travel and tourism industry can leverage these trends to offer innovative services to their clients and redefine the way people experience travel and tourism.
2. Artificial Intelligence - Artificial intelligence can be leveraged to create predictive and adaptive personalized tourist itineraries that can cater to the specific needs and preferences of each traveler, further enhancing the personalized tourism experience trend.
3. Marketing and Advertising - Marketing and advertising companies can leverage the trend of personalized experiences to create targeted and effective advertising campaigns aimed at specific customer segments, further enhancing the personalization trend in the travel industry
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Featured Examples

play_circle_filled Ultra Luxurious Job Offers
Ultra Luxurious Job Offers
Tourism Queensland Offers 'Best Job in the World'
What's "The Best Job in the World?" Tourism Queensland has discovered an innovative way to attract quality job applicants: offer them a ridiculous amount of money to live on a gorgeous island--and blog… MORE
Virtual Vacations
Virtual Vacations
Test Out Travel Destinations Online Before You Go
Being a smart traveler means that you should always compare your options--whether you’re deciding where to sleep, shop, dine, or go to amuse yourself for a while--from both monetary and satisfactory standpoints.… MORE
Keyword-Based Virtual Tourism
Keyword-Based Virtual Tourism
Pastiche Lets You Explain NYC's Neighborhoods by Tag
When most of us think of virtual tourism, we envision a Google Earth-esque satellite overview of a city; Pastiche heads in the other direction entirely with its text-based interface. Rather than navigating… MORE
play_circle_filled Google Earth Tours
Google Earth Tours
'Google Touring' Is the Illustrated Photo Tour of the Future
Today’s equivalent of Grandpa’s slide show of the trip to Yosemite is a Powerpoint slide show of Junior’s biology project. People love to tell illustrated stories, and Google Earth has been tantalizingly… MORE
Strictly Female Tourism
Strictly Female Tourism
Organized Travel Tours For Women-Only Adventures
Female-only adventure tours provide a unique travel experience for small groups of women to leave the blokes behind and to safely enjoy the spoils of foreign lands. Womens Own Adventure provides women-only… MORE
Sound-Based Virtual Travel
Sound-Based Virtual Travel
SoundTransit Lets You Hear Ambient Noise From All Over the World
SoundTransit brings you the opportunity to explore your planet without leaving your sofa using an innovative method of virtual travel: An online database of every type of environmental sounds recorded… MORE