What do you do when you desire vacation packages? In more innocent times the choices were few. You chose your beach location and designated either a few days or weeks. Life was simpler then. Terrorism was a term used to describe the most recent Hitchcock movie. 911 was a number you associated with emergency services in England. Then people could store their electrical goods under their aircraft seats and it was questionable if you should really put out a cigarette when taking off! Prior to take off the stewardess would issue boiled candies to suck. I remember as a child being invited up to the cockpit to see how they drove the aircraft. If I even dreamed of doing this in present times, I would be looking at three to five years extended all inclusive vacation in a penal center. Vacationing is not what it used to be.

The availability of options in the cruise vacations sector has increased exponentially in recent years. Foreign travel exploded on the vacation itinerary until the events of 911. Now, we are told that people are remaining at home and Cocooning. This is indicates we are spending more of our income on luxury items for the home. People are purchasing indoor spas and alternative therapies. It wouldnt be surprising to see, within seven years, we could be purchasing virtual package modules. We will lie down in ready assembled isolation tanks into which all the sensations of a exotic location will be plugged. On the enveloping screen screen your will experience lush panoramas projected and our sensor-driven enviro-seat will emit the tropical sounds of a Caribbean holiday and one will be successively buffeted by some evening virtually generated breeze. The earliest seasonal cruise module will probably be made available by Apple, followed several years later by Microsofts last minute deal module. Modules will in all probability be available for rental via internet connection for which a subscription will be necessary. After getting the return on their investment, these vacation resorts modules may become accessible for purchase at a premium. This is when the public can come on board and lease module vacation packages. Why not go scuba-diving with dolphins in the comfort of your own virtual-pod?

Although vacation packages have unfolded way beyond the weekend trip to the local town, the ever growing holiday market suggests that we aint seen nuthin yet. Reservations to be on the first Virgin Tours to outer-space has already sold out several years ago. The new class of aircraft will be called Skylon and will take off under its own power and return to earth having traveled in outer space without staging. It will not discharge parts during flight and will return to land with all equipment that it left with. So it looks like Christmas cruises may be an anachronism something to tell your grandchildren about. So, next stop Pluto and beyond!