Temporary hotels built of sculpted blocks of ice are among the more unusual accommodation types growing in popularity. Picture: Media Picture Source: Supplied
TRAVELLERS of the future will be able to use smartphones as room keys, do yoga classes on airport layovers and stay in hotels in shopping centres.
Cruising - and river cruising in particular - will also continue to boom in popularity this year, while political vacations are also catching on with tours of Northern Ireland led by BBC correspondents and trips to hot spots such as North Korea led by political experts.
Tourism Forecasting Committee chairman Bernard Salt said destination weddings would become more common in 2013 while young people would take long trips overseas.
''With the Australian dollar so high Gen Y are thinking: 'Perhaps we can fit in one last grand adventure before settling down','' he said.
The Skypark Central Hotel in Seoul, Korea has began offering guests a smartphone at check-in instead of a key which they use to unlock the door to their room.
They can also use the smartphone as a remote control to operate their TV, temperature and lights and use it to order room service and set a ''do not disturb'' on the room.
Space tourism is also coming closer to reality this year, with several companies fine tuning equipment and planning.
Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic hopes to begin ''powered tests'' using a hybrid rocket that will propel a vehicle into space while XCOR Aerospace is also testing its spaceflight program this year before introducing commercial flights.
A report on trends in 2013 by marketing communications brand JWT found more airports were offering exercise options.
San Francisco International Airport now has a yoga room while Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport has walking paths in several concourses.
Hotels in shopping centres are also increasing with a Sheraton to open in Dubai's Mall of the Emirates in 2013, while the Yas Mall set to open in Abu Dhabi later this year will house seven hotels.
Ice hotels - temporary hotels built of sculpted blocks of ice - are among the more unusual accommodation types growing in popularity.
Adrian Günter built his first ice hotel in Europe in 1996 and now has seven villages across Andorra, Switzerland and Germany attracting 10,000 visitors a year from Christmas Day until April.
The Iglu-Dorf, at the top of Engelberg ski resort in Switzerland, includes a restaurant, ice bar and jacuzzis.
Australian Federation of Travel Agents CEO Jayson Westbury said Fiji and New Zealand would be hot spots for Australian travellers this year.
''People will return to Fiji faster after Cyclone Evan than they did to Bali after catastrophes there,'' he said.
''New Zealand will also be back in people's minds as Christchurch starts to come back and The Hobbit film reminds people how beautiful it is.''
Flight Centre travel shopping of the future specialist Keith Stanley said more people were researching activities on mobile devices, before and during holidays.
''Travellers are also increasingly looking for experiences such as food and wine experiences or music instead of destinations,'' he said.
''We're seeing a demand for boutique hotels such as villas in Tuscany or a quaint Parisian hotel.''
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