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Travel Only 25 years ago, travelling was very different. We didn’t have cheap flights,
so people who wanted to travel long distances had to pay a lot of money, or go
on long bus or train journeys. Also, people didn’t use the internet in the past.
the future So if you wanted to check information about a place, you had to buy a book or
go there! Nowadays, you can book a hotel or a flight online very easily. You can
also go online and see what a place looks like. The world has become smaller,
and we can all travel much more easily.
But what will the next 25 years of travel be like? Let’s take a look into a possible
future …

Travel guides To infinity and beyond

In the past, people And how about a hotel
bought guide on the Moon? Why not!
books. In the future, At the moment, only
everybody can be a billionaires can afford to
travel writer. People travel into space. But in
will easily be able to the future, there will be
upload photos and more opportunities to
write comments about travel outside the planet
the places they visit. Earth. You will be able to
So travel books will take a short rocket trip
disappear. All the to see the Earth from
information we want space for a few minutes.
will be online. Or you will be able to
A to B in the blink of an eye spend one or two nights
sleeping in a zero-gravity
environment. But you will need to book your ticket
many years in advance.
Tradition

Travel will become faster. There are already high-
speed trains in many countries in the world. These
will get faster and will travel to more countries. And finally, remember that some things will not
Planes will become faster too. Some people think change. Places like the pyramids in Egypt have been
that it will be possible to travel between Europe and tourist destinations for thousands of years. Tourists
Australia in just four hours without stopping! More will always want to see things like the pyramids, the
people will travel too, especially from China and Colosseum in Rome, the Alhambra in Spain and the
India. Eiffel Tower in Paris.

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