Trends to watch in 2022: Slow pacers and slowmads are better versions of travellers

The La Esperanza Granada Resort & Private Villa in Granada, Spain. PHOTO: LA ESPERANZA GRANADA RESORT
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SINGAPORE - Meet the Slow Pacers - pandemic travellers who are ardent about wellness and safety. Their close cousins would be Slowmads - a new wave of digital nomads who stay put in one destination to work and play.

Slow travel has been idealised for years, but the lingering global pandemic is enhancing its appeal while engendering new variants of slow and careful wanderers.

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