Time Travel Testers Sought For Those Eager to Escape 2020

With international travel restricted around the globe, travel deprivation is at an all-time high, until now…! Off the back of a colossal time travel research breakthrough from student physicists at The University of Queensland, travelling through time could soon be the new ‘week in Spain’.

Hot on the heels of the very real possibility of being able to time travel in the not too distant future, Klook, the world-leading travel and activities booking platform, is offering an exclusive chance to become a time travel tester and get ahead of the inevitable rush to try it by bagging a £1 ticket on the time travel express, with journeys starting as soon as the technology is made available. The £1 early-bird price point is likely to increase once initial testing is complete, with a one-way trip likely to cost in the region of £10,000 (and we assume you'd want a return journey anyway). 

As a leading ‘things to do’ platform, Klook is committed to staying ahead of the curve and looking for new, innovative ways to give the world what it wants. The exclusive time travel tester ticket will offer the ultimate escapism for travel-wishers who have been stuck in the doom and gloom year of 2020 for far too long now. 

The research by the University of Queensland revealed the existence of closed time-like curves, which would allow an observer to travel back in time and interact with their past self. Speaking to the Independent, Germain Tobar said: “The range of mathematical processes we discovered show that time travel with free will is logically possible in our universe without any paradox.”

Following the quantum leap in time travel possibility, new research 3 by Klook, has revealed more than half of Brits (58%) would time travel if given the chance, with almost half of Brits (45%) admitting they would prefer to travel back in time rather than experience a potentially bleak-looking future. Moreover, the research uncovers the places, people, and decades Brits would most like to travel back in time to see, and highlights how the turbulent events of 2020 have given the nation an increased desire to escape. Read on to learn more about our findings!

In the midst of a year dominated by a global pandemic, unsurprisingly, a third of Brits (34%) claim that the events of 2020 have given them a stronger desire to time travel, with a staggering 46% admitting they would love to use time travel to skip this year entirely. 

So great is this desire, that over six million (12%) Brits would be willing to give up sex for a year in exchange for skipping 2020, while 1 in 20 would give up a year’s pay and 2.2 million (4%) would go as far as giving up their family for a year.

The self-sacrifice doesn’t stop there...

With Brits admitting their biggest regret is not travelling more when they had the chance, Klook’s research has also revealed the places, people, and decades Brits would most like to travel back in time and explore.

As a nation, the UK is more interested in visiting the past than exploring the bleak-looking future, with almost half (45%) admitting they would prefer to travel back in time, compared to just under a third (30%) who would travel to the future.

Experiencing the first day on the planet (9%) and watching Queen perform at Live Aid in 1985 (9%) are the top historical events that Brits would most like to travel back to and witness in person. Meanwhile, England winning the 1966 World Cup came out as the number one historical event amongst Brit males (10%). 

And after months of lockdown restrictions, it's probably no surprise to anyone that almost a million Brits (900,000 / 2%), admit the event they would most like to travel back to is their last night out pre-social-distancing.

When it comes to travelling back in time to meet a historical figure, Brits are a patriotic bunch. One in twelve (8%) wish to meet Princess Diana, while 'Queen' frontman Freddie Mercury (6%) and Winston Churchill (6%) beat off competition from the likes of Elvis Presley, William Shakespeare and Marilyn Monroe. 

The Swinging Sixties is the 20th century decade Brits would most like to experience (21%), followed by the Nineties (16%) and the Eighties (14%). 

A quarter of Brits (26%) would use time travel to experience a different way of life, while the opportunity to learn about history first-hand (23%), and enjoy the music (19%) and cultural events (14%) of past decades have also fuelled the nation’s desire to travel through time. Meanwhile, more than one in eight (13%) would use time travel to experience a life before social media. 

Simon Llanos, Klook’s Marketing Director for EU/USA said: “As the world’s most-searched travel activities platform, our goal has always been to connect travellers with the experiences they want and didn’t even know they needed. Klook users can already book and store tickets for a wide range of activities and following the ground-breaking research by the University of Queensland, we are excited to add this unique time travel experience to our offering.”

“Time travel could be revealed to be possible at any moment. As a brand that prides itself as being an industry leader in travel and tech, we want to ensure we are ready to work with it as soon as that happens. And as a leading ‘things to do’ company, we recognise the thing most people want to do right now is escape 2020, so, we’ve provided an experience that can do just that.”

Klook’s time travel testers will get a ticket to time travel that will offer the ultimate alternative for travel-wishers who have been stuck in the year 2020 for far too long. Tickets are currently available on a limited-time offer, in which the first 100 testers to each year can travel for just £1.00. Travellers can purchase an exclusive ticket to be one of the first commercial time travellers as soon as the technology is made available.

Just click on the button below to become one of the first time travel testers and drop us a note on Facebook or Instagram to let us know which year or decade you'd like to go back to most...