Sabbaticals: What it takes to plan long-term travel with Joro Senior Travel Designer Elise Ciappara

I think a lot of people, a lot of our clients, they've made their money quite quickly.

They are realizing that they've been spending a lot of time at work and not really with the people they love.

And that's more and more important to them.

I think as well, there's a lot of overwhelm at the moment.

We're surrounded, we're bombarded by news all the time.

We've got Instagram, we've got all, everything's coming at you all the time.

And a lot of people are quite burned out.

So, I mean, when we plan a sabbatical, most of the clients, the lead client is often working as part.

Connectivity is important.

But we, you know, we've had clients come to us and say, right, I need to do a month with my family and I don't want Wi-Fi because we can't be trusted.

We'll all be on it.

You know, by the same token, I've got another client who, you know, wants to go to the big caves in Vietnam and do that into the cave.

But connectivity is his biggest thing.

So we're trying to figure that out right now.

on that side of it but like it's it's one of those I think it's the fact that people are realizing what they have and the opportunities they have and they're realizing they don't want to be in the office all the time I think it's one of the things that the pandemic actually taught us we can work from home I'm working from home right now um and we can work on the move we you know that's actually a really valuable thing that has changed a lot of how people perceive what they can achieve with their families or without.

Sometimes it's solo.

Do you think that's a permanent change since 2020? I think so.

I think it's addictive.

I don't know how people do their laundry when they're going into the office every day.

When do they do it? But I think it's traveling in a sabbatical style or slow travel is addictive, particularly when you do it in the way that we do it in that we Like we were talking previously about, we work, you know, when we're working with the family office to make sure the kids' classes are built into the day.

So the experiences we're sending people on either tie into what they're studying or, you know, you've got space to have your normal life.

If we're working together as a team, I can be renting a gorgeous, gorgeous lodge in the And making sure that it's, you know, everything's already there when you get there exactly as you have at home.

So you're bringing that feeling of home with you wherever you go.

And then you get home and often people are really happy to get home after extended traveling.

I always am.