What Is Hurkle-Durkling, A Top Travel Trend For 2025? | Curly Tales

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Travel Trends 2025

Hilton has released its Annual Trends Report for 2025, revealing that sleeping and recharging during vacation will continue to be a top trend among travellers in the new year. 

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Sleep Tourizzzm 2.0

Sleep Tourism was a big hit in 2024 and in 2025, travellers will look forward to finding time to relax, recharge and catch a few extra hours of sleep. 

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What Is Hurkle-Durkling? 

In the new year, 1 in 5 global travellers will enjoy Hurkle-Durkling, the Scottish phrase for intentionally lounging all day in bed, while on vacation.

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What The Report Says…

Almost half of global travellers avoid setting an alarm on vacation and about  2 in 5 travellers choose hotels  where they think they can achieve  a better night’s sleep.

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A Hit Among Young Travellers 

Younger travellers, around 30%  of Zillennials, love Hurkle-Durkling  even more than Gen X and Baby  Boomers (11%).

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Sleep Divorce

Another sleep trend is Sleep Divorce and nearly  63% of travellers admit to sleeping better when sleeping alone and 37% of them prefer to sleep in a separate bed from their partner when travelling.

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Wellness Rooms

The report shows that 70% of luxury travellers choose hotels with sleep-centric amenities, including  ‘Wellness Rooms’.

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Spas for Sleep 

Also, 1 in 4 travellers will book a spa or wellness treatment to enhance their sleep while on vacation. 

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