Everyone loves a holiday! A little time off for some rest can be perfect. That's said, if you're trying to choose your next place to visit, don't waste time thinking, let your blood decide.
Today more and more people are interested in finding out their family origins. By the start of 2019, 26 million people had taken an ancestry DNA test, according to a report by MIT Technology Review. They believe by 2021this number will have risen to 100 million.
Some travel companies have noticed this. So they are trying to provide a service that both allows people to find out the history and traditions of their family origins and travel to the places their ancestries come from.
Airbnb, an online home-stay marketplace, is working with 23& Me, a DNA testing company, to encourage travellers to walk in the footsteps of their ancestries. And they aren't the only ones. Helen Kelly in the Shelnourne hotel in Dublin gives advice to help guests find their line of family origins using the results of DNA tests. "This allows them to fill in the empty part of their ancestry, "she said. The Conte Club, another travel company, offers people travel plans with their DNA tests. "These experiences are about exploring deeper into who we really are, "says Conte Club CEO Rebecca Fielding. ""It might be the most meaningful trip we can take. "
So next time you think of going on vacation, why not take a DNA test first? Once you know how far your family has come, take the time to holiday back.
