What Kind of Traveller Are You
~6 min · 20 questions · Free partial report
Two people can describe the same fortnight and sound like they went to different countries. One remembers the market at six in the morning; the other remembers that the room had a bad mattress and the bus was four hours late. Five things are measured here separately. Planning is how much of the trip exists before you leave. Comfort is the standard of bed, food and transport below which the day stops being enjoyable. Local Life is how far past the famous sights you go. Intensity is how much of the trip involves your legs, your lungs and a safety briefing. Company is whether the point of going is the people. There is no middle option on any statement. Four points, two on each side, so you have to lean. That is deliberate: on a subject where almost everyone would like to think of themselves as adaptable, the neutral answer is where the interesting information goes to die. The free result shows your shape. The full report covers what your top two do in combination, the kind of trip that fits and the kind that will quietly annoy you, and the specific friction that shows up when someone with your shape travels with someone who has the opposite one.
Five things that separate travellers, measured one by one, with no middle option to hide in. What comes out is a shape, and the useful part is which two you combine.
- See where you sit on five things that actually separate travellers
- Find out what your highest two do in combination, which describes a trip better than either alone
- Identify the kind of holiday that looks good on paper and would not suit you
- Understand the friction that comes from travelling with the opposite shape
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What this test measures
Planner
How much of the trip exists on paper before you leave the house.
Comfort
The standard of bed, food and transport below which the day stops being enjoyable.
Local Life
How far past the famous sights you go, into the ordinary daily life of the place.
Intensity
How much of the trip involves effort, height, cold water or a safety briefing.
Company
Whether the point of going somewhere is the people you meet and travel with.
Discover where you stand on each dimension.
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Target Audience
Anyone who has argued about an itinerary, or been surprised by how badly a trip suited them
Questions the report answers.
When does planning start costing you the trip?
Planning buys back the hours that would have gone on logistics, which is real. It starts costing when the plan survives information it should have lost to: the local who tells you the market is on a different day, or the road that turns out to be closed.
What does a low Comfort score actually buy?
Range. Two nights of a bad mattress is the difference between a week and a month, and between the places with an airport and the places two buses past it. It is a real currency, and people who spend it get further.
Why does a few words of the language change so much?
Because it moves you out of the part of a city that was arranged for visitors. Not through fluency, which nobody expects, but because ordering badly in the local language gets you treated as a person having a go rather than as a customer.
Why do high Intensity travellers come home tired and satisfied?
Because effort makes a day memorable in a way that comfort does not. The cost is the day off that keeps not happening, and the fact that anybody travelling with you is on your schedule whether or not their legs agree.
How much does who you meet decide what you see?
More than the guidebook does. Someone who lives there shows you the thing that is not on any list, which means a high Company score changes what a place turns out to be. It also means two trips to the same city can share almost nothing.
Who benefits most.
The couple who book badly
One of you is high Planner and high Comfort, the other is high Local Life and high Intensity. The trip is fine and the booking is a fight. Seeing the two shapes side by side moves that argument off personality and onto logistics, where it can be solved.
Somebody who came back disappointed
The holiday was objectively lovely and you did not enjoy it. Usually one scale explains it: a resort week for a high Local Life score, or a walking trip for a low Intensity one.
The first solo traveller
Look at Company against Comfort. The cheap accommodation that makes solo travel sociable is the same accommodation that a high Comfort score will hate, and knowing which of the two matters more to you decides the whole trip.
The person who plans for everyone
Very high Planner in a group of moderates. You are doing work nobody else wants, and the report is blunt about the part where the plan stops being a service and starts being an itinerary other people have to follow.
Frequently asked questions
Why is there no middle option?
Because on this subject the middle option is where the information goes to hide. Almost everyone would like to describe themselves as adaptable, so a neutral answer is the easy one on nearly every statement, and a test made mostly of easy answers produces five identical scores.
I travel completely differently depending on who I am with. What do I answer?
Answer for the holidays you choose yourself. If you split evenly between two very different kinds of trip, you will land near the middle of most of the five, and the report says what that looks like rather than pretending it is a single preference.
Which shape is the best one?
None. Each combination fits some trips and quietly ruins others, and that is what the report is about. A high Comfort and low Local Life shape is not a worse traveller than the reverse, it is a different holiday.
Is this a real travel personality assessment?
No. It is playful. The five things it measures were picked because they are what people argue about when they book something together, not because any model says these are the five that matter.
Can I use this to plan a trip with someone else?
That is the most useful thing to do with it. Comparing two shapes finds the argument before it happens, and the friction is nearly always in the pair where you sit at opposite ends rather than in the ones you both score high on.
What is in the full report that the free result does not show?
What your highest two do in combination, the kind of trip that fits your shape and the kind that looks appealing and would annoy you, and the specific friction that comes up when your shape travels with its opposite.
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