"The seven-countries-in-ten-days European tour is dying. Those whirlwind trips where you hit Paris for breakfast, Venice for lunch, and collapse exhausted in a Munich hotel room by dinner are starting to feel less like vacation and more like punishment. Something's shifted in how we think about travel, accelerated by remote work but rooted in a growing recognition that racing through destinations means you never actually arrive anywhere. Slow travel, once the domain of gap-year students and retirees, has gone mainstream."
"The pandemic allowed millions of people to prove they could work effectively from anywhere with decent Wi-Fi. Once that cat was out of the bag, it wasn't going back in. Companies that spent years insisting butts-in-seats were essential suddenly realized productivity didn't crater when employees logged in from Lisbon instead of London. Digital nomad visas exploded in popularity. Countries from Portugal to Croatia to Thailand started offering special permits allowing remote workers to stay for six months or a year while paying taxes back home."
The seven-countries-in-ten-days tour model is waning as slow travel becomes mainstream. Remote work proved many jobs function well anywhere with decent Wi‑Fi, prompting digital-nomad visas and enabling extended stays. Affordable monthly rentals abroad make living and working overseas more economical than brief, costly vacations. Travelers are pushing back against rushed, photograph-driven itineraries and choosing immersion in neighborhoods, markets, and local routines. Travel communities advocate spending more time in fewer places to experience culture deeply. Tourism markets and policies are adapting to support longer-term visitors and remote-worker needs.
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