So how big of an impact is coronavirus really having on travel for very wealthy families?
“Right after COVID, I think there was a movement for people to be a little less active and stay in place longer,” Huxter said. “But to be honest, we're now going back to what we were like pre-coronavirus. Customers want to cram too much into one trip, and you control them and they don't need anything. We're trying to get people to understand that.'' It will orbit the entire continent in 12 days. ”
House of Dreammakers, a US-based luxury travel company run by Gregory Patrick, spent last summer analyzing the global market and found that 60 per cent of luxury travel companies serving the highest income earners are based in the UK. The company opened a UK office in January this year after realizing that it had a However, many of them have had to downsize their operations. Given that the UK is becoming less homogenized and there is a growing desire for more experiential family travel, we decided now was the time to intervene.
“Parents want to provide an experience where their children can have fun while learning,” Patrick says. “Gone are the days of tour guides spitting out data.”
The company recently arranged a 10-day family trip to Japan. On this trip, a professor of Japanese history from Princeton University held a FaceTime discussion with the children during the hour-long journey from Osaka to Kyoto, and the children were so engrossed that the time flew by. It also takes over the “Dive” restaurant so kids can help with the cooking, and a personal stylist and shopper takes kids to the best boutiques and a personal visit with the last survivor of Hiroshima. I did it. The cost of the trip was approximately £188,000, excluding part of the private flight.
In a climate where people once traveled to Antarctica, Chile or the Galapagos Islands, they are now doing all three on the same trip. I can't help but wonder if this kind of chauvinistic attitude is having an impact on the kids who have to go back to school and compare their holidays with their friends. You spent two weeks at Sandy Lane in Barbados? God, how dull. We have just been to both the North and South Pole to see polar bears, whales, and wolves.
