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Design concepts for such creative ideas have been showcased at the Tourism Futures conference in Brisbane.

“Now that Virgin Galactic is hopefully going to have their first passengers in outer space as early as 2012 these kind of creative ideas are potentially going to become reality,’’ Craig Shim, Tourism Queensland marketing manager, said.

Mr Shim said a French company was already offering simulated kidnapping packages, in which people can pay to be abducted without warning, bound, gagged and imprisoned for between four and ten hours.

“It allows you to experience the terror of the real thing,’’ he said.

Nick Talbot, who is director of UK-based design and innovation company seymourpowell, said in the next 15 years you could see “air hotels’’ like cruise ships in the sky in which you spend a week floating from Australia to London, stopping off at various destinations along the way.

“It would be a lucky few that could afford to do it but it would be a completely mind-blowing experience,’’ he said.

Mr Shim also predicted a rise in “iTravellers’’ who embrace location-based social networking websites such as foursquare and gowalla, which can be accessed on iPhones and BlackBerrys.

The sites, which are described as a cross between a friend network and a city guide, allow you to receive information about a venue, reviews from friends and receive discounts if you “check in” online.

People can also download applications which can translate menus into English instantly.

People will also be able to see 3D images of island resorts and do virtual walk-throughs via their mobile phones in a modern twist on travel brochures in what is known as “augmented reality’’.

Mr Shim predicted travellers will remain more value-conscious than they were before the global financial crisis, which was good news for all-inclusive resorts such as Club Med and cruise ships, and seek more personalised experiences instead of mass-tourism experiences.

As such there will be a rise in lifestyle hotels, which offer such things as “virtual concierges” to tailor recommendations of pubs and restaurants to match your personality before you arrive.

More hotels will also cater to individual lifestyles, such as a hotel in Texas which re-fitted five rooms with such safety features as door alarms and gluten free menus for families with autistic children.

Airports are also likely to become destinations in their own right, offering such things as factory shopping outlets, and travellers are likely to pass through them much quicker as a result of new security technology such as iris scanning machines, full-body X-ray machines and micro-chipped passports.

Source: News.com.au

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Picking a Honeymoon vacation resort is one of the significant decisions of your life. Where to go that is different and not where everybody else is going. It is worth inspecting Vietnam where you can find more than one romantic 5 star hotel for your honeymoon holiday. It is exotic, it is dissimilar, and it has got an intriguing history and culture as well as attractive beaches.

One of the best Vietnamese hotels is the Nam Hai. It sits on the east coast on a gorgeous stretch of white sandy beach known as Ha My beach near to Hoi Nam, south of Danang. This Spa Resort is composed of sixty classy one bedroom villas, each with indoor and outside sitting areas and a luxurious bathroom opening onto a personal garden with an out of doors shower. There are 40 one, 2, 3, 4 and 5 bed roomed villas all with unspoiled views over the South China Sea. Each villa is also equipped with its own kitchen and a personal pool. Add to this iPods, free internet and surround sound Television and entertainment platforms and you are set.

As a hotel you will find the Nam Hai has so much space that it never appears at all busy, even if it is full, which is perfect for a honeymoon holiday resort. For a honeymoon holiday a pool villa is the best choice but honeymooners need to ensure that their villa is not on a hill but actually near to the sea. You will find the private garden is enormous with a large pool and a number of sitting areas. The best bit of the pool villas is that you get your own private servant and it is small touches like this that makes the Nam Hai Hotel the ideal honeymoon holiday resort.

Outside of the villa, there are 3 infinity pools which have dazzling views of the sea and the staff working around the pool will bring you whatever you like. The beach is long and deserted with no chairs on the beach itself.

If you would like to go to Hoi Nam, where there are a number of good cafes, there is free transport, but taxis are cheap anyhow. Nam Hai hotel is reasonably unique and close enough to the culture of Vietnam that if you lose interest in your honeymoon resort you can soon submerge yourself in the culture.

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