2024 Expert Outlook on Travel and Leisure
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22 Sep 2023
2024 Expert Outlook on Travel and Leisure

Why are holiday-makers opting for longer breaks? How can AI help people from minority backgrounds feel safer on trips? Will the high cost of living curb spontaneous travel? In this part of the 2024 Expert Outlook, we speak to three experts about how people are approaching travel and leisure.

Jenny Southan

Jenny Southan is the editor, founder, and CEO of Globetrender, the UK's leading travel trend forecasting agency. She’s also an award-winning travel journalist who writes for publications such as Conde Nast Traveller, Mr Porter, and The Telegraph. She previously spent ten years as features editor of Business Traveller magazine and is currently developing a high-budget TV series on the future of travel.

Cassam Looch

Cassam Looch is Content Director at global travel platform Culture Trip. With a background in film and television, Looch specialises in analysing and documenting local travel stories on a global scale. Formerly editor of Yahoo! Movies, as well as holding roles at Metro and Hello! magazine, Looch joined Culture Trip in 2016. His series 'Beyond Hollywood', which explored global film culture, won the Muse Creative Award and won Gold at the prestigious Lovie Awards in 2019.

Anna Lee

Anna Lee is a travel and food vlogger and influencer. Running an insider guide to Seoul, she provides her followers with insights into the hottest places, foods, and experiences in contemporary Korean culture.

Bailey Bellingy

Bailey Bellingy is a behavioural analyst at Canvas8. After completing a BSc in social sciences, she joined the world of cultural insights. Throughout her degree, Bailey gained experience across social research methods, focusing on sociology, gender, and race studies. With experience on a range of qualitative projects, her practice focuses on incorporating diverse narratives. Outside of Canvas8, she can be found stocking up on Glossier or browsing Jane’s Patisserie for recipes.