EasyJet’s holidays of the future with 3D printed buffets & ‘heartbeat’ passports

A NEW report has revealed what Brits can expect from holidays in the future – with 3D printed food, hologram hotel concierges and passports that use your heartbeat.

The easyJet 2070: The Future Travel Report has predicted how travel will change in the next 50 years.

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3D printing was one of the techniques that could transform travel in two ways.

One was printed buffet food at your hotel, which would allow guests to choose what they wanted to eat, reducing food waste.

And 3D printed clothes could eliminate your need to pack your suitcase.

Instead, holidaymakers could print their clothes in their room to decide what to wear, then recycle then for the next guest.

New changes are already being introdcued when it comes to passports, with eGates and passport-free travel being introdudced.

But the easyjet report suggests ‘heartbeat’ passports could be one step further, which would track travellers using their cardiac signature which is similar to the current fingerprint scanning technology.

Plane seats will get comfier, with smart materials adapting to the pasengers height, weight and temperature, while inflight entertainment could be beamed directly into your eyes rather than using the onboard screens.

Air taxis, subterranean hotels, smart hotel rooms and hologram concierges were all predictions included in the report as well.

Some of the more extreme predicted included “time travel” holidays where travellers can wear haptic suits to explore holiday sites while Meta holiday previews would allow you to try a holiday before you buy it.

The report was authored by a group of academics and futurists who made the predictions,

Heading up the report, Professor Birgitte Andersen of Birkbeck College, said:  “This next 50 years will bring the largest technological advances we have ever seen in travel and tourism.

“Aspects of how we holiday will be transformed beyond recognition; in the future holidaymakers will be queuing at the hotel buffet to have their breakfast omelettes and fry-ups 3D printed by machines, our heartbeat will become our passport, and in-ear devices will translate the local language in real time and enable us to speak the local lingo.”

EasyJet CEO Johan Lundgren added:  “We’re always challenging ourselves to think big and look at how we can make travel even easier for people all across Europe, both today and for generations to come.

“From biometric heartbeat passports to time-travelling holiday experiences, travel in 2070 is likely to be very different and exciting indeed.”

Here are some other ways travel is changing, including economy plane cabins with no middle seats.

Others include double decker cabins and pilotless planes.

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