{"id":41723,"date":"2023-12-21T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=41723"},"modified":"2023-12-18T16:15:19","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T23:15:19","slug":"sub-25-gifts-travel-trends-bad-where-to-go-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/sub-25-gifts-travel-trends-bad-where-to-go-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"Sub-$25 Gifts\/Travel Trends\/Bad &#8220;Where to Go&#8221; Advice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A weekly newsletter with four quick bites, edited by Tim Leffel, author of\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/cbjyU?utm_campaign=Nomadico&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\"><em>A Better Life for Half the Price<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>The World\u2019s Cheapest Destinations<\/em>. See\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/nomadico.substack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">past editions here,<\/a>\u00a0where your like-minded friends can subscribe and join you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Gifts for Travelers Under $25<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This is that time of the year when everyone with an online, print, or video mouthpiece publishes a gift guide, often with lots of dubious choices clearly stuck in by editors who don\u2019t get out much. I just update my two existing articles from past years, with tried and true items that work. Nomadic types tend to have a minimalist, light packing streak anyway, so here are some&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cheapestdestinationsblog.com\/2021\/11\/26\/travel-gear-gifts-under-25\/\">sub-$25 items that are easy to pack<\/a>&nbsp;and will probably be appreciated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>What\u2019s Trending in the Travel World?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A subscriber who works for a company called&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/meetglimpse.com\/\">Glimpse<\/a>&nbsp;offered to send me some useful search trend findings for our readers and turned up some interesting gems. Apparently \u201cRV life\u201d queries are up 66% year over year, \u201cdigital nomad visa\u201d searches are up 79%, and more people are searching for sustainable travel and info on an AI-powered deals browser extension.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1gdWJ1zD-3EILtKKrfQEljJzpwlVz_mCF\/view\">See the report here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>It\u2019s 2019 All Over Again<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The stats say it\u2019s official: travel is back to where it was before the pandemic.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.visualcapitalist.com\/charted-global-tourism-rebounds-to-pre-pandemic-levels\/\">According to this report<\/a>&nbsp;with pretty graphs using data from the IMF\u2019s World Economic Report, tourism numbers across the world are back to 2019 levels when averaged out. In 2023, Europe has been up bigtime, Latin America has been up slightly, the USA about even with pre-pandemic levels. Asia is coming out slightly behind, mostly due to China\u2019s botched Covid strategy dampening travel from there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Monkeys, Darts, and Where to Travel in 2024<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I can\u2019t even look at most of the big media \u201cWhere to go in 2024\u201d lists without either crying, laughing, or shouting at the screen like an old man watching football. So it made me smile to find&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/travel\/inspiration\/best-of-travel-hot-lists-b2444617.html\">this article in&nbsp;<\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/travel\/inspiration\/best-of-travel-hot-lists-b2444617.html\">The Independent<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;where I only need to list the title, no further explanation needed: \u201cThe secret decision-making behind \u2018best-of\u2019 travel lists\u2014and why they always seem to get it wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nomadico issue #83<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[2385],"tags":[2386],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41724,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41723\/revisions\/41724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}