While planning a trip can be exciting, it can also be stressful. After all, there are so many incredible destinations to visit, and narrowing your options down to just one or two can be tricky.
Luckily, The Luxury Holiday Company has released some new tools that make the whole planning process much easier.
The first tool is known as the Inspirer tool, which helps people who are still trying to figure out where they want to go by providing them with different holiday options. Basically, the tool offers a large selection of different images from around the world, featuring outdoor landscapes, cultural icons, food, wildlife, and more.
Once you go to the tool, you simply click on the images that you find the most appealing, and the tool will give you between one and three suggestions of countries that could be a good choice.
I think this tool is particularly great for people who haven’t done much travel. For someone who has done as much travel as I have, I could easily tell at a glance which countries had were associated with which pictures. But that doesn’t mean that the tool still wouldn’t work for more experienced travellers- I found that the pictures helped me consider countries that I hadn’t yet thought about visiting for my next trip.
Another reason why this tool is great is because often we try to think logically about our next holiday destination based on things like price. But when we see pictures from around the world, the emotional part of our brain takes over, and it’s easy to see which type of holiday we’re really interested in.
For example, I’m a city girl, but found myself picking images of islands and beaches over and over again. For this reason, I may end up travelling to a beach destination for my next trip.
The next tool is all about planning, and it’s the tailor-maker tool. You can use this tool in addition to the Inspire tool- once you’ve found a destination you’re happy with you can head to the tailor-maker tool to put your trip together.
I really want to travel to Africa, so I chose Botswana as my destination. The way that this tool works is a little similar to the Inspire tool, as it uses beautiful images to help you build your inspiration board.
One of the most difficult options for me was narrowing down all of the things I would want to do in Botswana. But the tool is really helpful for this, and it allows you to tailor some of your own itineraries, or look at some of the suggested itineraries- this is a good option if you’re not sure how to put it all together.
I personally think these tools are a great idea. While there is plenty of information online about many destinations, I love the creative, visual aspect of these tools. Give them a go today and let me know what you think.
