"Red dot or Feather”:

Identifying your Travel Tribe

By Resort Refugees

Who are you?

Every day you are forced to make

the decisions that define you…

• Rolling Stones or Beatles?

• Elvis or Johnny Cash?

• Caribbean or Pacific Coast?

• Flip Flops or Barefoot?

At the end of the day your identity

defines you as an individual; however,

you live, consume and travel with

characteristics of a tribe…

Resort Refugees wants to help you

identify what your Travel Tribe is.

Who are you?

After scouring the globe from Alaska to Zanzibar, we

have developed a rubric for identifying your Travel Tribe.

The following slides depict four distinct groups and

their tastes and desires.

We invite you to continue and discover your tribe so that

you make proceed in the travel world enlightened.

Travel Tribes

Complete the the following Travel

Tribes quiz and see if you are one

of the following…

• Backpacker Deluxe

• Gypset

• Aspirational Adventurer

• Hipset

Just answer the questions and

keep track of your points!

Criteria

The following criteria have been used to illustrate the traits of each distinct tribe:

• Wear- When packing your bag for a vacation, what is the one article of clothing

you can’t live without…

• Shoes- You would walk a mile in these shoes any day…

• Transport- When not walking however, your preferred mode of transport is…

• Accesory- To accessorize while out on the open road, you choose…

• Listen- On your iPod/Turntable/Acoustic Guitar

• Sleep- What sort of place to do you lay your weary head at night and chill during

the day…

• Hood- You can be found in these stomping grounds around the world…

• Do- How do you pass the time…

• Hero- If you could choose one person with which to share a rickshaw ride from

Bangkok to Koh Samui, it would be…

Wear

When packing your bag for a vacation,

what is the one article of clothing you

can’t live without?

A: A hand woven tunic given to you by the Bedouin Chief of Palmyra (2 points)

B: Anything and everything from American Apparel (3 points)

C: One name only, Marc Jacobs (4 points)

D: The one bathing suit that will serve as your general outfit, formalwear, and pyjamas (1 point)

Footwear

You would walk a mile in

these shoes any day…

A: Red Wing Boots (3 points)

B: Top Siders (4 points)

C: Havaianas (1 point)

D: Espadrilles from the fishing village of

Sanary, Provence (2 points)

Mode of Transport

When not walking however,

your preferred mode of

transport is…

A: Catamaran (4 points)

B: The local bus (1 point)

C: Beach Cruiser (3 points)

D: Pack mule with a Sherpa (2 points)

Accessory

To accessorize while out on

the open road, you choose…

A: Your trusty old do-rag (1 point)

B: This year’s Art Basel Miami VIP card (4

points)

C: Ray Ban Wayfarers (3 points)

D: Leica M7- b&w film, not digital (2 points)

Listen

On your iPod/ Turntables/Acoustic Guitar

A: Paul Simon (2 points)

B: Peter Tosh (1 point)

C: MGMT (3 points)

D: Vampire Weekend (4 points)

Sleep

What sort of place to do you lay your

weary head at night chill during the day…

A: The Standard Hotel NYC (4 points)

B: Ace Hotel Palm Springs (3 points)

C: The Lodge at Kruger National Park

(2 points)

D: Park Bench (1 point)

Hood

You can be found in these stomping

grounds around the world…

A: Sundance Film Festival

chilling with Robert Redford (2

points)

B: A dive bar in Berlin Mitte (3 points)

C: Somewhere along the Inca Trail

(1 points)

D: Nantucket (4 points)

Do

How do you pass the time…

A: Hackey Sack around the

campfire (1 point)

B: “Slumming it” ironically (3 points)

C: Sailing the Greek Isles with

buddies and a cold beer in hand (4

points)

D: Yoga pause during your photo

safari (2 points)

Hero

If you could choose one person with

which to share a rickshaw ride from

Bangkok to Koh Samui, it would be…

A: Peter Beard (2 points)

B: Tenzing Norgay(1 point)

C: Andre Saraiva (3 points)

D: David de Rothschild (4 points)

Result

TOTAL POINTS TRAVEL TRIBE

0-7 Backpacker Deluxe

8-17 Gypset

18-25 Hipset

26+ Apirational Adventurer

Continue reading to learn more about your tribe…

Backpacker Deluxe

Aching feet and a sore back is a small price to pay for the view

from the end of the Inca Trail. Lucky for you however, a warm

cup of mate de coca and a hearty alpaca steak await you at

the Machu Pichu Lodge restaurant (though you won’t sleep

there). Although your backpack may only contain 3 changes

of undies for a two week hike, at least the your 80 gig iPod and

Bose noise cancelling headphones can lull you to sleep.

Backpacker Deluxe

Gypset

Your last surf safari to Bali, your teapot collection

from Tangiers, and the priceless image of you and

your sherpa, Tenzing Norgay Jr., at the Everest Base

Camp… All courtesy of Daddy… These are the

hallmarks of a true Trustafarian. You may have the

passport stamps of a wandering hippie, but you skip the

bus for business class.

Gypset

Hipset

Though your ironic t-shirt collection may lead friends

to believe otherwise, those beat up sneakers you

wear are not from Wal-Mart (they are Martin

Margiela). Chilling in Williamsburg or Södermalm

rolling your own cigarettes with an ice cold PBR is

your idea of a vacation, but every now and then you

make it out to Coachella.

Hipset

Aspirational Adventurer

When you fantasize about vacation, do you have

visions of swimming pools, movie stars and room

service? Is your idea of “roughing it” staying at the

Ritz Carlton down the road from the Four Seasons?

Reality check… you can’t afford the Ritz let alone

the Four Seasons (and you aren’t old anyway).

Aspirational Adventurer

Travel on…

Now that you know your travel tribe, you can go forward into the world

confident that you are on the right path.

If you have any pictures, comments, videos or tips to share with Resort

Refugees about your travel tribes, please get in touch with us at

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