How do you decide which kind of getaway is right for you? Take this quiz before planning your next trip. Plus, we’ll match your traveller type with the SUITCASE magazine – discounted for Black Friday – guaranteed to entertain and inspire.
25 November, 2020
There's no single best way to explore the world. So, how do you decide which kind of getaway is right for you? Take this quiz before planning your next trip. Perhaps you're a lover of slow, sustainable travel or happier in a fast-paced city. Maybe your craving for adventure is outweighed by your appetite for a meal shared with locals.
Simply pick an answer from a to f in the questions below, tally up the number of each letter and read the corresponding profile. We've matched each traveller type to the SUITCASE magazine guaranteed to entertain and inspire. Better yet, if you click through to our shop between 27-30 November, you'll enjoy up to 50 per cent off as part of the Black Friday sale.
a) Rediscovering my neighbourhood
b) Decluttering my home
c) Feeding my sourdough starter
d) Joining talks/ gigs/ clubs over Zoom
e) Learning a new craft or skill
f) Planning a post-lockdown trip
a) Sustainability. The lower the carbon footprint of my journey, the better
b) Finding balance. I want to leave a place feeling relaxed and rejuvenated
c) Culture. I seek out places with strong identities in which I can immerse myself
d) Events. I line up trips with various happenings so I can see a destination, neighbourhood or a particular scene at its best
e) Escapism. I want the time and space to disconnect from my everyday life
f) Variety. I want to experience something new
a) Meeting locals
b) Immersing myself in nature
c) Trying the local cuisine
d) Visiting museums and galleries
e) Exploring by foot or bicycle
f) Seeking out lesser-known places
a) Outer Hebrides, Scotland
b) West Sweden, Sweden
c) Sicily, Italy
d) Chicago, US
e) Shōnai, Japan
f) Liuwa Plain, Zambia
a) Holiday let
b) Spa hotel
c) Restaurant with rooms
d) A hotel with a coworking space and/ or members' club
e) Off-grid cabin
f) Camping
a) A reusable water bottle
b) On-the-go skincare essentials
c) Snacks
d) A well-planned itinerary
e) A book
f) Decent walking shoes
a) Write a thank-you note to the neighbour who'll be watering my plants
b) Yoga stretches. There's nothing worse than feeling stiff on the road
c) Grab a coffee
d) Check the traffic/ tickets/ hotel reservation
e) Turn on my OOO. Log out of social media accounts
f) Make sure my portable charger(s) is charged
a) Thrifted treasures or something from a small, local business
b) An artisanal self-care potion/ lotion/ remedy
c) As many local delicacies as are permissible in a carry on
d) A tacky magnet. My fridge is covered in them
e) Memories
f) A fossil I found on the beach
You're the homebody at heart, but that doesn't mean you're averse to adventure. Rather, you like to feel a deep connection to a place, whether that's through engaging with people or immersing yourself in a storied landscape. That's why you'll enjoy Vol. 32: Homegrown, in which we shine a light on the UK's under-radar neighbourhoods and subcultures as we encourage responsible, local exploration.
For you, travel is an opportunity to examine the strains of our everyday existence and reclaim some balance in untarnished surroundings. In Vol. 30 Health we explore the many paths that lead towards (or through) a life well-lived by way of forest bathing in Japan, meeting punk-rock farmers in Portland and detoxing at a Swiss spa.
You know that the best way to get a taste of a destination is through its stomach, whether that means eating roti from a market in Deli, snagging a table at Copenhagen's up-and-coming restaurant or scouting out Lima's freshest ceviche. Whet your appetite with Vol. 29: Taste, an epicurean grand tour that takes in the fertile soils of Crete and South Sudan's refugee camps as we chew the fat with chef Francis Mallmann in Provence.
You needn't scale a mountain or wash up on exotic shores to be a traveller. For you, the gritty edges of a city are as appealing as a wispy forest shrouded in mist. These are places that shape who we are, where variety, culture, freneticism and anonymity collide. Sound like you? Get lost in Vol. 28: Cities, as it whisks you from Athens to Uzbekistan via Chicago.
Today, we live in two worlds: the futuristic world of the fast (hyper-real, tech-amplified, ever-accelerating) and the retrospective world of the slow (authentic, off-grid, reflective). You seek solace in the latter. Carve out some silent space as you peruse Vol. 24: Slow, which embraces mindful travel in the form of a pilgrimage in south-east England, a throwback journey on the Orient Express and a cycling-induced epiphany in the hills of Transylvania.
You're the kind of insatiable traveller that craves experience. Sharing travel stories at dinner parties? Yours are guaranteed to raise eyebrows. You may not be sure what "authentic" really means, but you pursue it with abandon. Make your next conquest Vol 23. Adventure, which spirits you from the rainforests of Borneo to the rum-soaked islands of Nicaragua and along plenty of roads less travelled in between.
