Your hologram holiday

How experts say technology will transform travel by 2070

a HOLIDaY can easily be ruined by airport chaos, poor service and disappointing hotel food.

But future holidaymakers may never have to worry about these bugbears, experts predict.

From heartbeat passports which will put an end to check-in queues to hologram tour guides which will let tourists ‘try before they buy’, travelling abroad will be chaos-free, they promise.

and 3D food printers could mean the end of disappointing dining by letting guests create whatever they want at the buffet.

The futuristic predictions are part of EasyJet’s ‘Future of Travel’ report looking at how holidays will be revolutionised by the year 2070.

Sightseers could use in- ear devices to naturally speak the local lingo, while the most adventurous among us could even be holidaying in space. according to six futurologists commissioned by the airline, the next 50 years will see trips abroad ‘transformed beyond recognition’.

Booking a trip will no longer involve reading brochures or scrolling through social media, they said. Instead Britons will be able to preview the destination in the virtual-reality ‘metaverse’. Where we go is likely to stretch further afield too, with one forecaster suggesting short space-based holidays could become a reality within 30 to 50 years.

The airport is often the most stressful aspect of a holiday. But in the future cameras will scan and track passengers as they make their way to the gate, meaning no more security checks. and our pulse could become our passport. With every person’s cardiac signature unique, heartbeat patterns will be added to our biometric details and logged on to a global system in the same way fingerprint scanning works today.

Sightseeing may be enhanced by augmented reality to help tourists feel as though they have travelled back in time at historical sites.

Report leader Professor Birgitte andersen of Birkbeck College in London, said: ‘How we holiday will be transformed beyond recognition... holidaymakers will be queuing at the hotel buffet to have their breakfast omelettes 3Dprinted by machines.’