The summer travel season is upon the Northern Hemisphere, and while many consumers would normally be setting their sights on visiting new lands, international travel seems to be by and large on hold for summer 2020. Too many people fear contracting coronavirus while traveling abroad....
The first half of 2020 has been particularly grueling for the travel industry. Jeff Cavins, CEO of recreational-vehicle rental site Outdoorsy, likens it to the entire planet “getting hit by a meteor” in terms of what it did to consumer interest in travel. Cavins and...
Of all the verticals hit hard by the global pandemic, hotels have seen their business slowed to a near stop as shutdowns and social-distancing rules bring travel of all kinds to a near halt. But the lodging industry is slowly reopening, with hotels working overtime to...
The government of Cyprus has a novel sales pitch for tourists considering a vacation in the Eastern Mediterranean nation: If you catch the coronavirus while on holiday in the island country, they will pick up the tab. A positive test for COVID-19 in Cyprus gets visitors free lodging,...
Owners of yachts and campsites on Croatia’s scenic Adriatic coast are hoping their isolation in the Mediterranean country will attract tourists, Reuters reported. The nation’s lockdown eased in late April, two weeks after the tourist season should have begun. But in the Dalmatian port of Krilo-Jesenice, dozens of...
Today is Memorial Day, the unofficial start of the U.S. summer travel season. Of course, summer will be far from normal this year, and consumers’ enthusiasm for travel has dimmed considerably. Will COVID-19 cancel summer vacation in 2020? U.S. consumers have certainly grown more concerned with protecting their...
One solution to the pandemic’s destruction of the travel industry, according to Glenn Fogel of Bookings Holdings, could be for the government to start subsidizing peoples’ vacations. Fogel predicts that travel and tourism will be some of the last recovering facets of the pandemic’s multi-armed...
As thousands of complaints about airlines flood the Department of Transportation (DOT), the department is issuing a warning to airlines: Don’t renege on obligations. According to a CNBC, the DOT usually receives around 1,500 complaints of that nature in a normal month. In April and...
Face masks. Socially distanced photos with Mickey and Minnie. The (measured) reopening of Shanghai Disneyland Monday may provide a bit of a roadmap as to how entertainment giant Disney and other leisure firms can start to bring back foot traffic and revenues. But the initial...
