Luxury Escapes today released its Travel 2020: Forecasting the new decade of travel report which looks at how Australians will travel over the next 10 years. A glimpse of the study was revealed by LATTE in September.

Surveying close to 20,000 Australian travellers, the report is one of the largest travel industry consumer reports in 2019. Luxury Escapes engaged research firm Nature to undertake the research, surveying their own customer base of 3.2 million members, along with a broader cohort of Australian consumers.

The report found that Aussies love to travel, with one in two respondents spending at least $2,000 a year on domestic travel and three in 10 spending more than $10,000 a year on international travel.

The research identifies and outlines seven key trends that will impact how Aussies travel in the next decade:

International destinations to visit in 2020: Canada (21%), USA (19%), Italy (17%), England (15%) and Greece (14%)

The connected trip: One in four travellers want to be connected 24/7 on holidays, 14% go off the grid

Transformational travel: Top interests to travel are food (59%), local culture (55%), history (52%) and walking (32%)

No bad time to book a holiday: Five nights most popular length of trip, 28% spend more than $10,000 on international travel

Conscious travel: One in four Australians would travel for a wellness retreat, 13% would try ‘voluntourism’

Travel innovations: Smart hotel rooms (36%), facial recognition at airport (29%), robot companions (9%) and one in five want to try space travel