From Selecting Resorts to Rethinking the Purpose of Traveling

What resorts do you want to vacation at? That’s a very tricky question.

First of all, I am not into resort at all until I went to a resort in Batam, Indonesia for the first time in my life during a cell group retreat, and I was very shocked to find out that I could literally spend whole days and nights there without stepping out from the resort at all. I stayed there for four days and three nights, and the resort provided all the necessary items/services that I need during a vacation. It was an amazing experience and somehow refreshing point-of-view for me, especially when it’s time to come to think about next vacation plan — but obviously it will not be there so soon before this pandemic is over.

I enjoy traveling as a backpacker, planning itinerary gives me a lot of freedom to choose where I’d like to visit in a city, who I’d like to go with or meet, and what food would be my lunch and dinner. My experience about traveling with a travel agency was really shit during a week trip from LA to Las Vegas in 2015 summer, and I swore I won’t be traveling with travel agent again in the next 5 to 10 years.

However there must be reason why travel agency still get huge revenue from a big market annually, simply because people are too busy to plan their vacation. Being a student has, at least as, an advantage to spare plenty of time in planning and executing tasks, while for working class such time commitment is considered as sucking their last drop of blood from bodies at weekends — they just simply wanna get rest and enjoy family time, which in other way they will not mind exchanging vacation planning with some money, so they get people working out plans for them to choose, and they just need to swipe their credit card at the end of vacations.

There’s no right and wrong about planning your own trip and getting a package from travel agency, but just purely personal preferences. While being myself and having a very high expectation on vacation quality, I would rather planning things by myself than having someone who doesn’t know a bit about my preferences at all to get me follow what I shall do and what I shall eat in a trip. It’s good to think about the future of tourism, and for sure highly personalized vacation experience will be In high demand soon.

Back to the question — what resorts do you want to vacation at? I would probably say a resort that can give me complete privacy, natural surrounding and timely service like massage would be an ideal resort to stay for the next vacation.