The way people holiday is quietly being redesigned. The third edition of Omio’s NowNext Travel Report, developed with YouGov, identifies six travel trends shaping 2026-2027 — and together they describe travellers who are more deliberate: stringing destinations together, planning around extreme heat, and spending carefully without travelling less.
Travel Trends Shaping Future Journeys
The standout shift is “pick and mix” travel: multi-stop holidays that combine destinations in a single trip, perhaps adding a train leg to another city or a ferry to an island. Some 52 percent of Americans plan or seriously consider such a trip, above the 48 percent average across surveyed markets. At the other extreme sits the counter-trend — travellers returning to familiar places with slower itineraries, with 33 percent of Americans finding repeat destinations more appealing than a few years ago, and a quarter preferring places that are easy to reach and navigate.
Appetite Is Not the Problem
Demand itself is robust. In the survey of 8,505 adults across the US, Brazil, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK, 62 percent of Americans expected to take or had booked a leisure trip within 12 months, and 49 percent wanted to travel more often — up sharply from 34 percent in 2025. Most travel stays close to home: 73 percent of Americans expect to travel domestically, with Europe the leading long-haul draw at 28 percent and Asia at 19 percent. Cost management is near-universal, with 76 percent expecting to take at least one action to keep trip spending in check. More coverage like this lives under more travel trends and lifestyle stories.
Weather and Disruption Enter the Planning Stage
As the Omio NowNext report coverage reports, heat-aware planning and disruption-readiness have moved from afterthoughts to inputs: 68 percent of Americans consider possible disruptions when planning. Travellers are also, slowly, changing behaviour at crowded destinations — though Americans remain less likely than the global average to avoid peak seasons entirely.
The composite picture is of a traveller who wants more trips, built more cleverly. Multi-stop, heat-aware and budget-managed is not a niche style any more; on this evidence, it is becoming the default.
