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Hate Planning Trips? Try Mystery Travel Expeditions

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    American Express Travel vice president David Patron explains Nextpedition a travel plan that takes users on mystery vacations.

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The month of march.

You're tired of the stress of planning the details of your vacations why not -- -- a mystery -- in mystery travel sector.

Let someone else take the reins while you wait for the surprises -- to Brett joining me now critics on the right is David -- is a vice president with American Express travel.

-- explain this to me because I'm so CD and I I could never never.

Be surprise for the vacation.

-- -- -- -- -- -- -- They love it they love it the way work that's called expedition from American Express travel so what you do is go to -- expedition dot com.

And you fill -- -- -- quick fun quiz and you end up with a travel sign.

Which indicates what kind of travel you are.

Can you call American Express travel specialist.

And they'll ask a few more questions it's a little bit more ask about your budget and timing and then they will create a mystery trip just for you.

It's about a week long to destinations.

And you don't know where you're going to about three days before you you -- Get three days notice required ally exactly you get actually -- travel devices so so mobile devices sent to you.

And on the mobile device it tells you your first destination then each day the mobile device helps reveal.

The next day's itinerary and you can take photos with well the device and shared on FaceBook.

And then throughout the of the seven days there's two over the top mystery activities that we throwing it a lot of fun.

And incidents like had to add to travel at the mobile -- -- just -- you it -- -- you -- with the -- -- you know -- in proponents of the affiliate sites like via -- -- -- The where the support what does -- cost and we're surprised.

The travel show -- -- -- and all over the world isn't the reason is that forum just -- television -- -- The husband that's -- -- -- -- as -- -- -- is on the back of that is why did you start this and it was worth customers and Amex saying we wanna be surprised.

-- -- up boat people love to travel.

And our customer base they they look to travel but what they wanna do with get the most out of travel what this does is first of all it -- your passion in the travel signed shows you might be.

We'll -- -- in court someone who doesn't want to do the tried and true they wanna do something way different so will arrange something for that passion.

And then also there's just something about the next that you don't know which you can do you don't know where -- -- And we give these great recommendations where to shop where to -- As well as planned these really great.

And then you can do all your Amex -- sure absolutely that's another -- I mean right and then charged on American -- exactly are absolutely love it I read military's so I think overall the -- and it's travel seems to be pretty popular things ago but I have.

We'll get absolutely people -- flying people are.

Traveling and it up really get it's the we're seeing for the first two months of the year were seen.

Extremely strong traffic for flights and hotels and some.

People up to travel they -- -- have their vacations they really you know wanna hold on to them and they wanted to you try to into traveling and and they also wanna do things like.

What we do -- expedition have that kind of extra flare well it's very different very very different that the traveled patron vice president with an ex child thanks for coming and thank you so much.