Trends Archives - OutThere magazine

Italian model in a hat, cravat and blue jacket opens to gates to a villa in Lake Como behind him

Our 2026 luxury travel trends:
These are the shifting sentiments that we all need to hear

If trends are meant to move us forward rather than rubber-stamp business as usual, we have to ask: are we truly engaging with what’s changing, or just comforting ourselves with the idea that nothing really needs to? These are the 2026 luxury travel trends we believe actually matter.

South African man in a long ochre robe talks to male Asian tourist in a white shirt, shorts and tan boots in the gardens of on a healing farm hotel in South Africa

Virtuoso Travel Week 2025:
In the next, inevitably AI-driven year, will human connection become the ultimate luxury?

One phrase echoed with particular resonance at Virtuoso® Travel Week earlier this year – "Human Connection" and we are reminded that while technology can send us anywhere in a click, it is still people who make travel truly OutThere.

WTM London 2024’s DEAI Summit:
From talk to tangible change in travel

WTM London 2024’s landmark DEAI Summit brought leading voices together to outline practical steps for a more inclusive travel industry, emphasising community engagement, accessibility, and authentic representation.

Aqua Expeditions Blu in Komodo, Indonesia

Virtuoso Travel Week 2024:
Where is the jetset heading and why?

We head to Las Vegas for the 36th annual Virtuoso® Travel Week to uncover the trends set to define the future of luxury and experiential travel.

The Brando, featured in a travel trends report by cazenove+loyd x Globetrender

cazenove+loyd x Globetrender:
Tailored trends

On life’s great scale of predictability, travel trends rank somewhere between sudden global pandemics (who saw that one...

Rainbow Rebellions were identified as one of the biggest trends in queer travel in The Future of Queer Travel report by Globetrender

Globetrender:
The future of queer travel

What's the future of queer travel? A new report by travel trends forecaster Globetrender shines a light on what's to come – and what challenges remain.

Elephants sighting, Belmond Safaris, Botswana, Africa

Travel better:
The real future of travel

When the time comes for us to globe-trot again, we explore where, how and why we should do...

Desert Jeep ride at Six Senses Shaharut, Negev Desert, Israel

Industry voices:
Brave new world

OutThere travellers have shown their resilience time and again, being among the first to venture forth after major...

Luxury hospitality:
A space odyssey

2020 has changed travel in more ways than most of us would have imagined. Here, we discuss luxury...