How Group Travel Can Help You Meet Your New Year’s Resolutions
- FTLO Travel
- 2 days ago
- 3 min read
New year, new resolutions ✨
If you’re looking for a little extra motivation to stick to your resolutions this year, we’ve got you! We’ve seen firsthand how travel (and especially group travel!) can help people follow through on the things they strive to work towards every year in ways that you might not think about.
From building confidence to making new friends, here’s how packing your bags might just be the best resolution hack out there.
Make New Friends
Making friends as an adult can feel… weirdly hard. But one thing we’ve found is that a shared love of travel is a connector that brings people together and helps cultivate those adult friendships we’re craving.
Group trips like we run at FTLO Travel have a way of fast tracking friendship and you’ll see in many of our reviews people talking about how by the end of the trip, everyone felt like they’d known each other forever. Many people join our trips solo and leave with new friends who’ve explored new places, tried new foods, and shared unforgettable moments together. We even love highlighting the BFF connections and post-trip meetups our travelers share with us on our Instagram page.
Whether you’re craving connection or just want to meet people who get your interests, group travel is a great way to create the kind of friendships that go beyond the trip itself.
See The World
No more “maybe someday” or saving destinations to view later. Consider this your sign.✨
Those bucket-list destinations you’ve been saving on Pinterest for years? Make 2026 the year you actually start checking them off. Group travel makes far-flung or unfamiliar places feel more accessible and a lot less intimidating.
Some trips already topping our 2026 hot list?
✈️ Brazil
Stop Scrolling
We all say we’re going to unplug and then somehow the algorithm continues to pull us back in.
Travel has a way of pulling you back into the present moment. Sorry this year, we’re going to be too busy sipping an Aperol spritz, wandering cobblestone streets, and cooking with locals to see what new daily trend is circulating online. Everything hits different when you’re fully present, taking it all in! Group travel naturally encourages you to look up, lean in, and actually experience where you are.
Personal Growth
Personal growth doesn’t have to only mean journaling every morning or reading self-help books. Sometimes it looks like booking a trip, showing up solo, and saying yes to things you wouldn’t normally try.
New places, new people, and new experiences can oftentimes push us outside of our comfort zone (in a good way!). And with group travel, you get the perfect balance of enough support to feel comfortable, and enough adventure to surprise yourself.
Then you can bring that confidence boost you get from trusting in yourself to take the solo trip and apply it to your every day life!
Wellness & Balance
Is it time to check back in with yourself and show up in a way that feels good without overdoing it? Us too 😅.
Intentional travel, like our Mindfulness & Margaritas trip, creates space to reset, reflect, and find balance without pressure.
Think movement, mindfulness, connection, and yes… margaritas. Wellness doesn’t have to be all green juice and early mornings. Oaxaca is a great place to kickstart a mindset shift on what lifestyle balance could look like for you!
So… what’s IN for 2026?
✔️ Actually checking countries off your bucket list
✔️ Confidence in ourselves to SOLO travel
✔️ Letting someone else do all the planning
✔️ Putting up that OOO message and actually checking out while checking in to the present moment
And what’s OUT?
✖️ Waiting for friends’ schedules to magically align
✖️ Putting off Greece until you find the “perfect partner”
✖️ Losing PTO to a “potential trip” that never happens
In 2026, we’re prioritizing making our resolutions come true, through travel, and with experiences, stories, and memories that last way longer than January. 🌍✈️
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