Some vacations I can remember, in black & white . . .

Looking back at the concept of going on a vacation, a lot has changed over the years.

Well, how much have things changed?

To answer that question, I need to go way back in time – to my teenage years, when I accompanied my parents on holidays, or long-distance family visits. These long-distance family visits were vacations in themselves and you really wanted to take back some memories with you.

Those days, one of the most popular carry-around cameras was the Kodak Brownie box camera – really ancient by today’s standards. You loaded a reel of black & white film that gave you 12 frames, I think. So you really had to be careful about natural lighting and composition – because you couldn’t waste a single frame.

The roll then went to a b&w development studio for processing and prints. The long wait for your prints to arrive was nerve-racking, because the process was tedious and time consuming. So if you were really hoping that your picture in front of the Taj came out right, all you could do was hope for the best.

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Q&A – December 2017

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On newer travel and vacation formats in the coming years

I’ve been asked this question time and again and each time I attempt to answer it, I launch into a different story. So, will there be newer travel and vacation formats in the years to come? A tricky question to answer, even if you have a crystal ball in front of you. Because we really don’t know what the vacation seeker of tomorrow will be looking for when he’s planning a vacation. Or what he has in mind.

The way we work will have something to do with it
Today many young professionals choose to work remotely. Some of them work out of home, some of them work out of cafes, and some of them pick a vacation spot to work undisturbed.

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Message of the Month – December 2017

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