Travel-style differences explain why some trips feel transformative and others feel like work. Six universal travel archetypes show up across travel-industry research and decades of guidebook writing: the Wanderer (unplanned, follows the wind), the Planner (spreadsheets, optimised, packed days), the Cultural Diver (museums, history, local food, language attempts), the Adventurer (hiking, diving, adrenaline), the Resort Lounger (pool, cocktails, deliberate non-doing), and the Foodie (the meal IS the trip). Each is a coherent style, none is better than the others.

The Travel Personality Type Test maps your travel style to one of these six. Ten scenarios, booking a trip, first day in a new city, packing decisions, rainy-day plans, surface which approach you default to when planning is open. The archetype with the highest score is your dominant travel style; most people are a blend with one secondary that emerges on different trip types (solo vs partner vs family).