Tiphaine Dubuard // Photo credit: OLIVER BERG / DPA / dpa Picture-Alliance via AFP 6:26 a.m., March 17, 2024

Sea or mountains, stay in France or go abroad, you may still be unsure about your next vacation destination.

Scientific trips, unusual visits, train boom… Europe 1 takes stock of the different trends for this year 2024 for holidays.

At the world tourism fair, several trends are emerging for summer 2024. First new feature, scientific travel.

Very concretely, you go on vacation and you learn more, for example about the formation of lava in Hawaii or the chemical composition of the Congo River.

Being close to nature

At the center of this approach, tourism which aims to be close to nature according to Iliade, a volunteer within an NGO which organizes these excursions.

“We are going to pay attention to nature, we have local partnerships with local residents and scientists who know the area and who will tell us how to ensure we do not have an impact,” explains the volunteer. 

When they are organized by associations, these trips are tax deductible up to 66%, an element which should finally convince you.

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Travel differently with the train

If you do not want to cross the oceans, it is possible to turn to the train.

Spain, Germany, Italy... More and more French people are embarking on rail trips, according to Estelle Nicolay, co-founder of Railtrip travel: "The journey will already be part of the journey, we are closing the outside our house, we're already on vacation. We're going to take the time to discover the landscape, we're going to read a book, we're going to rest, we're going to chat with people," she argues.

For lovers of France, our territory has a lot to offer.

Sleeping in an old Jesuit chapel in Poitiers, flying over the Champagne vineyards or even traveling through the Bourbonnais mountains in Allier aboard a Citroën traction... There is something for everyone.