What Is A Calmcation? (& Do I Need One?)
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There’s a new travel trend to know – and this one we can get on board with. Here’s exactly what a calmcation entails, plus four ideas for 2025
As Taylor Swift famously sang, you need to calm down. It’s a trend infiltrating each and every tendril of society right now: slow food, more mindfulness, even soothing decor. The latest? The calmcation: a travel trend encouraging longer holidays where you really focus on the present, slowing down and connecting with nature.
What Is A Calmcation?
A calmcation is a slower-paced holiday that considers both your personal wellbeing and the wellbeing of the planet. They’re all about connecting with nature and slowing down, and are the antithesis of the frenzied, bucket list holidays that spiked after the pandemic and its successive lockdowns preventing travel. If you’ve started planning your holidays based on how great the pictures will look on Instagram, chances are you need a calmcation: an excuse to entirely switch off, stretch out and remember why we travel in the first place.
‘Calmcation is one of the latest travel trends to emerge and is set to be popular in 2025,’ explains Sarah Findlay, travel expert at Total Travel Protection. ‘Amid a busy world with increasing environmental concerns, calmcation pushes for sustainable, slow and considerate travel. These trips are breaks that leave you feeling refreshed and connected with nature, rather than exhausted and like you need another holiday – because we’ve all been there!’
The Covid-related impacts on the travel industry – and the way we function as a society in general – are innumerable. While we saw that initial spike in far-flung bucketlist trips, it seems, five years on, that holiday habits are starting to align ever-more with the wider wellness boom of the 2020s. As we invest lofty figures in our health and wellbeing, attempt to disconnect from our screens, prioritise connections to nature and reach for holistic healthcare, we want our holidays to match up – and the rise of the calmcation is just one symptom of this.
‘Calmcation’s rise in popularity is a reflection of a societal shift towards prioritising mental wellbeing and rejuvenation,’ Sarah says. ‘This shift has been slowly occurring for the last few years since the world was thrust into Covid 19 lockdowns. People are craving trips that allow them to slow down, connect with nature and don’t break the bank.’
Calmcation Ideas For 2025
