It has been revealed that 23 per cent of people like to head to a foreign country to swat up on the local language. And 20 per cent of young travellers liked being able to mix their holidays with language learning, up 6 per cent from 2012.

Mixed holidays are becoming increasingly popular, with people also choosing to work whilst abroad, with countries like Australia one of the most popular destinations among young people for this purpose.

David Chapman, director general of WYSE Travel Confederation, told The PIE News: "Combining holiday and educational travel is becoming more popular. More than 20% of the young travellers who responded to the New Horizons IV Survey in 2017 were mixing holiday with language learning. This is up from 14% in our 2012 survey. Language learning was the purpose of travel for about 23% of respondents in our 2017 and 2012 surveys ... We know from our survey that digital nomads tend to take shorter trips and are activity-intense in destination. Based on this, you could venture to say that short-format courses would be most likely to fit into the digital nomad's style."