The Guardian’s worst travel ideas of 2012: Wearable luggage, royal fever and dog holidays


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Skift is incredibly disappointed we didn't know about campbling, for it would have most certainly been included on our lamest trends of 2012 list.

» Get your daily dose of Skift: subscribe to our newsletter, RSS, Twitter or Facebook. Crap products • Dr Bronner's magic soap has "18 different uses-in-one!" from toothpaste to massage to nappy wash! • Wearable luggage – Jaktogo is a very ugly coat made out of plasticky pockets so you can smuggle up to 10kg extra hand luggage on to your flight … It also comes in dress form! • "Round the world pants" – cities instead of days of the week ... £70! Pretentious and silly travel concepts ... • Who knows what a concierge normally does, but this year they specialised. There was the "food truck concierge" at New York's Thompson Hotels; the "sleep concierge" at The Benjamin, also in NYC; the "art concierge" at the Hazelton Hotel in Toronto; and, best of all, the "horcierge", to attend to guests' horse-related needs, such as buying jodpurs, at the Stafford London Hotel. • Giving a fancy name to something we do already and calling it a new trend is hugely popu