Highly personalised space and deep-sea hotels to open in next decade, says SkyScanner study
Holidays will change dramatically in the next decade with new technologies allowing for the opening of space and ocean-depth hotels, according to travel site Skyscanner’s ‘Future of Travel 2024’ report.
Skyscanner created future hotel concept art
The report, created in partnership with The Future Laboratory, interviewed a team of 56 trend experts and futurologists, finally predicting that consumer travel will become faster and less expensive, making hotel hotspots located at the bottom of the ocean and in space easier to access.
The report claimed that the appeal of zero-gravity suites and new exciting environments will make space a popular destination.
However, mysterious journeys to the mysterious ocean floor will be the more inexpensive option for holiday-makers.
Furthermore, consumers will be able to personalise their rooms with unprecedented precision: “Hotels will empower their guests with incredible levels of hyper-personalisation through their mobile devices to provide a tailored overnight experience. Travellers will be able to book rooms where everything from the air temperature to the strength of the power shower is set specifically for them.
“Hotel room walls will be fully interactive capable of playing films, showing pictures, displaying Skype calls from loved ones and even frosting up to provide private work spaces within the room," the report stated.
Skyscanner’s head of B2B Filip Filipov said: "Taking travel to space will be a ground-breaking milestone for mankind in general but what is even more exciting is the transfer of technologies that space exploration can bring to commercial aviation.
“A regular traveller might see a London to Sydney flight in 2.5 hours, which will make travel even easier and faster than ever before, breaking time boundaries.”
Space trips are quickly becoming a more common occurence. Earlier this month, Land Rover discovery launched a competition offering four friends the chance to travel to space upon the Virgin Galactic shuttle.