The only other time Connie Tiong and her extended family members see each other, apart from Chinese New Year, is during their year-end vacation.
Tiong enjoys the quality time she spends with her relatives during their extended family travels. — CONNIE TIONG“Our family, some 20 of us, travels on a yearly basis, sometimes to local places or overseas. My mum and aunties are usually in charge of planning the trip. We would gather at my grandmother’s house in Penang, a month before a trip, to review our travel itinerary, ” she explains.
Nur Fatihah travels with her extended family on a yearly basis. In 2018, the family travelled to Sabah for a short vacation. — NUR FATIHAH NOOR AZHAR SHAHThe demand for multigenerational travel is highest in Asia, according to global online travel agency Agoda. The company’s Family Travel Trends 2018 survey found that Asian travellers engage in more extended family trips.
“There is a heavy importance placed on the duty for taking care of one’s parents and elderly family members; we respecting and caring for ageing parents. “When extended families come together, they bring with them a host of different needs, abilities and interests. Therefore, it goes without saying that for a successful trip you need to find things to do that blends the desires of each generational group into one great experience, ” the company says.
A cruise holiday, according to Goh, fulfils many requirements of the multigenerational family holiday. The Hilton hotel chain, meanwhile, has introduced leisure-focused additions such as family suites and family rooms, inter-connected hallways and other services directly specified for families such as children’s club and pool slides.Holiday close to home
On the stakeholders’ part, he says the industry needs to provide mobility-friendly facilities for the more senior members. These include wheelchair lifts for tour buses and vans, wheelchair-friendly ramps for buildings, motorised wheelchairs at shopping malls, and disabled-friendly toilets at attractions such as museums and theme parks.
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