Bizarre Trend Clusters

While our capacity for mass space travel is still years away, brands are offering consumers a taste of outer space through products that are partially or fully made in space. Be it a cookie or a pair of boots, these goods satiate shoppers looking to indulge their sense of individuality.

Megatrends

Artificial IntelligenceTribalism

Consumers are seeking to draw benefits from therapeutic but unusual traditions practiced by other cultures. Including treatments that use tactics such as fire and reptiles, these adventurous health methods reflect a desire to push boundaries and experiment with activities that promote well-being.

Megatrends

CatalyzationNaturalityPersonalization

Formalized ways to complete one's bucket list are taking precedent on a global scale to satisfy growing Boomer desire to make each trip more about unique experiences worthy of brag rights.

Megatrends

ExperienceTribalismYouthfulness

Increased dependence on technology and an addiction to material goods are making some consumers seek less luxurious alternatives when vacationing.

Megatrends

ExperienceNaturalitySimplicity

More consumers are bearing a survival state-of-mind, taking the alleged upcoming apocalypse of 2012 to heart with extreme preventative measures and apocalyptic “gear,” from retail-friendly weapons to gas masks and survival shelters.

Megatrends

Catalyzation