Experiential gifts

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Experiential gifts, also known as gift experiences, are gifts of experiences instead of material possessions. Experiences include adventures, dining, travel and music. Experiential gifts have become a rapidly growing segment within the annual gift industry.

Market surveys

As of 2009, the experiential gift market is an established, highly competitive multi-million-dollar market in the United Kingdom and Australia and an emerging category in the USA.^{[citation needed]}

Experiential gifts also capitalise on consumers' growing comfort with purchasing gifts online. According to a December 2012 survey, 69 percent of UK experience days were bought online.^[1]

See also

• Alternative giving
• Ethical consumerism
• Green gifting
• Regifting

References

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