Book Club retreats trends in travel

Many of us travel to enjoy incredible views or maybe enjoy delicious local dishes and to look for unique experiences that we could not have anywhere else. But the latest travel trend? Go where you bury your nose in a good book.

The travel trend is with the viral rise of Booktok, which has usually made a lonely hobby into a lively community, and with the general growing enthusiasm for reading.

According to a report by BookNet Canada, how Canadians spend the leisure time, 49 percent of the people surveyed stated that they read or belonged to books every week in 2023. In 2023, the Canadian readers also visited more book clubs and book events than in the previous year, as the study found. The popularity of the Reading retreat – many sold -out sale – can therefore not be a surprise.

In particular, the United Kingdom seems to be ahead of the curve, with several niche travel companies offering bookable holidays. The Reading Retreat, for example, was started in 2017 and organizes three nights in the Cambridge route. Guests are welcome to read what they want (although they can read a custom “recipe” based on their preferred genres).

“We are happy to see ourselves as a solid, basic reading retreat we say” fundamental “, but it is quite luxurious with accommodation and gourmet meals,” says co-founder Cressida Downing, a literary consultant who has been working in publishing for more than two decades. “It is very much a matter of returning to the nice feeling that you have as a child when you read books and nothing counts, and someone else makes the whole circle for her,” she adds.

There is no better way for books in Bristol in places to transport readers into the atmospheric place of a novel than to fly there and experience it first -hand. The company organizes retreats in the cities and countries in which books have been hired since 2023.

Still lifeSarah Winman's bestseller history of love and war, inspired the founder Paul Wright to organize the first retreat in Florence. This year he planned more than a dozen retreats, including a trip to Crete The islandThe multi-generation-historical novel by Victoria Hislop. “It's like a travel book club,” says Wright and notes that the guests usually read the book before the trip.

One of the newer retreat companies that lived up in Great Britain who shone was born by the passion of founder Megan Christopher for reading and traveling in combination with her career-outside land in hospitality. Her five-day retreats on the locations of the year include Sicily, Seville and the French city of Argelès-Sur-Mer-Mer-Mer-Mer-Mer-Mer-Mer-Mer-Mer-Mer-Mer-Mer.

Christopher believes that their travels only swing for women as a form of post -pandemical escapism. “It enables us to spoil a little self -care by taking the time to read a book.” For women who illuminated retreats, all guests read the same book in advance (this is common for many reading retreats) and then combine with other travelers via different experiences, such as: The last dinner is “Book Club Night” when you discuss the book as a group.

Lauren Moore, a self-proclaimed introverted, was inspired to start her book Huddle Reading Readreats through her wish, with other enthusiastic readers in a more convenient way to chat the constant commitment of her traditional personal book club.

One night in 2023, Moore posted on Tikkok about just going to a beautiful place to discuss books and then go to bed. The next morning, the locals found in Vancouver that their Tikok video had collected 60,000 views and more than 5,000 likes, with hundreds of people asked for a short vacation.

Since then, Moore's Book Huddle has organized more than 500 people in 13 retreats in the USA and England. She also teamed up with large publishing companies for the books of the retreats and works with local bookstores in every goal to organize a book fair. “All participants are immensely looking forward to it because it reminds the school letters from the time when we were children,” she says.

Moore is particularly satisfied with the sense of community that has grown out of the book Huddle Retreats. Permanent friendships have closed. The retreats enjoyed ten women so much that they received permanent tattoos of the book Huddle logo.

The retreat goal of Nicole Zajac, based in Winnipeg, who drove twice with a book, does not particularly appreciate any travel route or accommodation. She can simply register for a trip and immediately immerse yourself in a circle of fellow booklets.

“It is also a great way to learn about other books. In the end, you have an even longer TBR list (read),” she says, just ending a horror secret that she would otherwise never have taken up.

Zajac will shortly take part in her third Reading retreat – the first in Book Huddle Canada, which will take place in Victoria in May. She expects to return home with even more passion for her favorite pastime. “The more you talk about reading,” she says, “the more you want to read.”