Familiar with these recently invented travel words?

  • Floatel – a hotel on water
  • Voluntourism – combining a holiday with charity work
  • Glamping – roughing it in a luxury camp
  • Babymoon – a holiday when your ready to pop
  • Wellness – just an awful word
  • Intuitive medical – this will be replacing “wellness” soon, we’re told
  • Spafari – safaris combined with “wellness”
  • Doga – yoga with Fido
  • Cinetourism – visiting a destination associated with a film. A slum tour of Mumbai, for example, or “Hobbiton”, in New Zealand
  • Jetiquette – how to behave on a flight
  • Flightseeing – viewing an attraction, the Grand Canyon, for example, from an aircraft
  • Digital detox – a holiday without your mobile, tablet or laptop
  • Twixmas – a short break between Christmas and New Year
  • Brokepacking – backpacking on a budget (wasn’t that the point of backpacking?)