When making your resolutions for 2012 here are a few suggestions from the Destination Experts at Kensington Tours to help motivate globetrotters to make travel vows for 2012 and carry them out successfully! From tips on saving up for your own dream vacation, to vowing not to be a typical tourist, making a travel resolution ensures you make the most each valuable vacation day. Happy New Year and Bon Voyage!

1.     Invest in Your Travel  Dreams

If it's worth going, it's worth saving up for. Resolve to put money away each month to make your travel dreams come true. Whether you squirrel it under the mattress, set up an automatic debit, or get smart of on the travel loyalty rewards options, when you're gazing at the Mona Lisa or diving on the Great Barrier Reef, you'll have no regrets.

2.     Where The Wild Things Are - Put Endangered Animals on Your List

A devastating number of stunning animals are on the endangered species list - and time is ticking. Make a resolution to see them now, and get inspired to help turn the tides of fate, before it's too late.  From the orangutans of Indonesia, the black rhinos East Africa and the Arctic's polar bears, to the Amazonian pink dolphins and India's Bengal tiger, you'll stand in awe of nature and hopefully be inspired to action.

3.     Don't Just 'Fly & Flop' This Year, Get Experiential!

Make a resolution to give the all-inclusive a pass this year, in favor of something off the beaten path. Immerse yourself in the culture of the destination you are visiting. Whether it's camping with elephant mahouts in Thailand, an afternoon trekking in Kenya alongside Maasai tribesmen, dinner with a local family in Peru - spending time with locals is guaranteed to be an enriching travel experience.

4.     Take Inspiration From A Book Or Song That Has Moved You

From Hemingway's ode to the Running of the Bulls in The Sun Also Rises to Kipling's The Road To Mandalay, and from jazz great Miles Davis's Filles de Kilimanjaro to Sinatra's New York, New York, literature and music have always celebrated the great global experiences. Resolve to have your favorites to jump to life off the page this year.

5.     Change Your Life With A Sacred Pilgrimage - Vow to get spiritual this year.

Explore Israel, homeland of three of the world's religions - Islam, Christianity and Judaism. Spiritual sites linked to each are found around every bend and you're sure to find many that stimulate your soul. In search of Nirvana Journey to India's Bodh Gaya, where Buddha achieved enlightenment or the Holy Ganges River where millions of people take their final voyage from earth into heaven. A trip of this kind is bound to give you a new perspective on your own life.

For more information on how to make these travel resolutions a reality browse the incredible travel options available from Kensington Tours. (Kensington Tours offers custom private guided tours to over 90 countries around the world. The flexibility of Kensington's offerings allows for personalization of every tour at a wide range of price points - resulting in a handcrafted vacation experience at an unbeatable value.

Kensington Tours was named World's Best 2011 by Travel + Leisure Magazine and named one of the Best Adventure Travel Companies on Earth  by the editors of National Geographic Adventure Magazine.)