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Where will we go this year? Tossing up holiday alternatives is always fun. But the choices we make are vital for those in the travel industry. Wholesalers book hotel beds and airline seats months in advance, trying to anticipate travel trends. Travel agents, dealing daily with the public, are well placed to notice tendencies towards, or against, destinations or types of holiday.
Hot destinations for 2006, experts predict, include Croatia , Austria , Shanghai , Hawaii , Canada and Alaska ; even Zanzibar , Lebanon , Bhutan and Costa Rica .
Spa holidays are big and European river cruising is enormous: travelers just can't get enough of it.
Perennial favorite destinations for Australians include New Zealand , the US and Britain , followed by Thailand , China , Hong Kong , Singapore , Indonesia , Fiji and India . What's next?
Austria will be big this year as it celebrates the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth. As for European river cruising: It's phenomenal. We have already taken triple the number of river cruise bookings for 2006 than we took for all of 2005. Many baby boomers, when they toured Europe years ago, avoided places like Slovakia , Hungary , Serbia , Bulgaria and Romania because they were associated with communism. Now these countries are being opened up to river cruising. Williams predicts Alaska and Canada will be huge, with many itineraries combining the two.
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