What is Experiential Journey?
At Luxexplore we understand that we’re all different, we all enjoy different things and our travel now reflects that. At Luxexplore, we do experiential travel that has something for everybody and yet gives something back to the places you visit.
Experiential travel is about doing rather than seeing. It’s about forgetting about what you should be seeing and instead focusing on what you wish to experience. Experiential Travellers want do more and feel the place instead of just seeing it as a typical journeyist with a digital camera to take some pretty pictures. They want to play the game instead of sitting on the sidelines and just watching the game. They value the simple but real experiences they actually have over what they are told they should being doing by someone else.
Today’s traveller seeks deeper experiences that are compelling, which enriches their lives and forms a connection with the place they are visiting. Experiential Travel is a total immersion in a local way of life. Experiential Travellers want to meet and engage with the local people life from the front line to truly experience their way of life. They do this by taking out time to explore the sights, the sounds, the smells, the food, language and culture. They prefer to eat at a restaurant where the locals eat and stay at a local homestay or B&B instead of choosing big chain hotels
And Experiential Travel does not have always cost a lot. Often the simplest moments during your travels provide the greatest memories and experiences, which are priceless, unique and bring a smile to your face. Yes, at times these can be uncomfortable, sometime mundane but they are real and often the experience of a lifetime.
Experiential travellers understand that this is what real travel is really about – experiences that resonate long after they’ve happened. And hence they are willing to go great distance to experience unique places not found in most guidebooks and beyond the beaten journeyist tracks to achieve it.
Historical travel was never out of fashion and is more in demand than ever. After all there is only one Tajmahal or Ajanta & Ellora, and in this way historically immersive luxury travel is no different today than getting your hands on a 1934 Maybach. You can lose your watch, you can lose your car, you can lose your house. You can never lose the emotional experience of enjoying something that few people have ever done
Many of the world’s most experiential travel destinations remain beyond the range of a standard flight or car, you have to take a private jet or you have to walk a lot, which is precisely where the experience starts to matter more since earning something is always better.
The downside for the hospitality industry is that location, location won’t simply work on its own any more. The service game is back but with a change, service today is now expected to be experiential by default. It’s now just expected everywhere. At the highest levels. Even in Antarctica.