Enjoy Creative Travel With the Lab of Experimental Tourism

You can choose from various topics like “A to Z Travel” where you pick a town from A to Z or in the Aesthetic Travel category when you turn a regular holiday into an aesthetic journey.

Going to the airport? Spend 48 hours in one without getting on the plane.

For alternating travel leave your home on foot.

Feeling archaic? Try anachronistic travel where you go using a means of transport that’s old-fashioned or obsolete like a sedan-chair, palankeen, galley, hackney gab, track motorcar, 2 CV, airship; etc. then visit a foreign town using an old edition of a guidebook. With the help of a phone book (internet or other method) find a person called Ariadne in a town of your choice then give Mr. or Mrs. Ariadne a call and ash him/her what their favorite 21 places in the town are. Mark each place on a map and visit them in a logical order.

Budget-minded? Travel on a total budget.

For the bureaucrats there’s the Bureaucratic Odyssey when you take a tour of the following places known for their administrative function (rather than their touristic value): waiting rooms, social services offices, town halls, police stations.

Nocturnal? Try By-Night Travel where you arrange to visit a place and arrive at night.

Feeling wistful? With Chance Travel you insert the name of your home town into the index of a world atlas (if it’s not there already). So, for example if you live in Melbourne, Australia: one will take you to Melbourne, USA, two to Mele, Cap, Italy, three to Melekess, Russian Federation, Four to Melenki, Russian Federation, five to Melezes, Riviere aux, Canada, and six to Melfi, Chad.

Feeling counter active? Try counter travel which entails traveling with a camera but don’t take pictures of the famous landmark and tourist attractions.

Ever heard of Dodecatourism? All twelve travel itineraries should be built around the number 12 so, for instance, you take a train that leaves at 12.12 and get off at the 12th stop, walk or swim along the 12th line of latitude, do a tour of hotels, only staying in room 12, being a round-the-world trip with only $12 in your pocket, and journey along motorways or highways that are number 12.

Feeling twin-like? Try Double Travel where you visit places whose names repeat themselves in their title e.g., Sing-Sing, Bora-Bora, Baden-Baden.

Wanna go to the finish line? With End-of-The-Line Travel you take a suburban bus, tube, or train out of a city and travel until the end of the line.

Strong in your relationship? With Ero-Travel you arrange to spend a weekend away with your partner.

Or there’s Expedition to K2 which entails exploring the area on a town plan or map that sits in the square marked K2.

Culinary, are you? How about trying Gastronomy Travel, an adventure consisting of devising dishes and menus created exclusively from ingredients whose name contains a destination.

Like having the inside scoop? With Insider Travel you explore a place following the suggestions of the locals.

Spontaneous in personality? Try Last Minute Travel when you give yourself a year off to go traveling. From time to time you can go home to rest, do your washing, buy more pet food, vote; etc.

For the bookworms, there’s Literary Travel involving taking a literary tour of the world without leaving your sitting room.

Board game fanatics can try Monopoly Travel, a method of city exploration which consists of discovering a capital by following the layout of its Monopoly board.

Hung up on a name? Try Namesake Travel where you visit places in your home country that share their name with places abroad e.g. Ellesmere in the UK (but also in Barbados).

For the cultural-minded, there’s Opus Travel which gives you the chance to make a journey that is suggested by the title of a piece of art, literature, music, or cinema like One Night In Bangkok, Round Ireland With a Fridge, Miss Saigon, and A Year in Provence.

Manic? Try Random Micro-Travel. You can meet up with friends in a caf�© on a Saturday morning, put your house keys, name, and address in an envelope, mix up all the envelopes and redistribute them randomly, spend the weekend at the address in the envelope you are given, keeping all the appointments (lunch, brunch, or dinner) made by the usual occupant.

Here’s a catch. Try Slight Hitch Travel where you go to your nearest motorway slip-road with a backpack on and a large piece of card (approximately 20 x 50 cm) and hitchhike.

Are you more like a turtle when moving around? Try Slow Return Travel when you pick a destination that is quite far from where you live and take the quickest form of transport you can find to get yourself home.

Like to surprise your friends? How about siccing Thalasso Travel on them which involves citing an invented burst water pipe or lack of hot water and inviting yourself to take a bath at the house of your friends.

Are you a diehard Trivial Pursuit fan who longed to play something called Travel Pursuit? Follow some friends when they go on holiday and don’t let them out of your sight.

Card sharks will enjoy Trip Poker, a travel game for four people where the winner of the first hand choose the destination of their trip then the winner of the second hand decides the date of the weekend away by adding a number of months onto today’s date. The winner of the third hand determines the type of accommodations like hotel, in the car, in someone’s house, under the stars, or no accommodations and no sleep!