Traveling is a long-lost appetite everyone in the world misses! It’s been a while where traveling openly has felt within our reach. Covid-19 pandemic takes the blame for it. The consequences lead to imposing bans and restrictions affecting every service and business, especially the travel and tourism sectors. Nevertheless, as vaccination programs are set in motion, the world can see the silver lining on the gray clouds to travel again. Sooner than later, international travel will be open again as many nations are bracing up to wipe out the pandemic with various measures. However, ordinary travel trends are beyond safety. Instead, travelers must fit into the post-pandemic tourism trends which are crucial, and fun at the same time. Find out below to know more about them.
Journey Towards Recovery
With vaccine programs on the run and the distribution already underway, every country is expecting to see tourism back to the ordinary. Governments in most countries are providing financial support to ease the burden for their people. Meanwhile, some of them assist firms to adapt business models and retrain staff for various skills. Others give free online training certification classes to tourism workers to improve their skills.
Besides, most travel destinations are preparing to return in full swing with exciting initiatives. For instance, Barbados initiated a ‘Welcome Stamp’ visa. It is a residency permit for a year for remote employees to live and work from their country. Also, Costa Rica extends the national holidays to Mondays to extend weekends as a way to boost domestic tourism. Likewise, Fiji introduces a ‘Blue Lanes’ initiative that allows yachts to berth in its marinas after meeting strict quarantine and testing requirements.
The Post-Pandemic Tourism Trends
Humanitarian Tourism
A year-long pandemic and its consequences make humans grow fonder. The world then almost crumpled to a miserable state losing people once we knew, loved, and cared for. On the bright side, as the world is healing, we can finally bring back the great tidings to our living loved ones. From uniting with family and friends to reviving the sparks in existing relationships, post-covid brings about a new era of strong bonding, harmony, and connections. From encountering new people in our lives to seeing off our friends leaving overseas, it has brought much sense of fondness and newness towards everything.
If tourism gets back in full swing, people will not give thought too much to destinations but other people. Related to humanitarian tourism include peace tourism, visiting relatives and friends, and volunteer tourism. Those greatly affected by distance and affection will gladly travel and embrace their loved ones who lives far away. Hence, post-covid will pivot towards emphasizing human relations, peace, and communications creating an ultimate post-pandemic tourism trend.
So, gear up and be prepared to voyage again on the pending trips and fun holidays with family, community, company, and friends.
Revenge Travel
As the world fights back the pandemic on the winning side, there are possibilities for international movements to return to normalcy. Although international traveling will take a while to function, domestic tourism is avenging for the long-awaited trips and vacations. As vaccination is performed in full swing in every nation, travelers’ vaccination certificates will be soon verified. This certificate will probably serve as a passport for about a month-long holiday at destinations you favor the most. Why a month-long? To cover up the outrageous moments of waiting, enduring the livid period of quarantine, and holding back all the excitement. Most of us travel freaks deserve longer and luxurious holidays to recover the ones we planned years back.
Consequently, the term ‘Revenge Travel’ will become the trendiest post-pandemic tourism almost at the end of the current year 2021 and thereafter.
High-hygiene standards Tourism
As the black curtain rises, post covid-19 will demand high-hygienic standards from everyone. Likewise, travelers will highly expect hygienic standards of the city, region, and the destinations they are visiting. Also, various hospitality establishments will embrace safety as the main choice parameter for travel and accommodation. Travelers usually get drawn to hotels or any places with thermal checks, staff health checks, infrared radars, and safety and health guarantees. This will be an ultimate calling for travelers seeking to stay following strict safety and high-hygiene standard protocols. Regarding safety, airlines, hotels and any other travel-related companies will demand customers to carry their vaccination certificates while traveling or visiting properties.
Health-Oriented Tourism
When the coast is clear, travel destinations will once again regain their magical transformation to lure visitors. However, the pandemic has made most people realize to focus on health than they ever had. Therefore, travelers will look forward to destinations providing health and wellness programs or even luxurious treatments in pursuit of physical and spiritual wholeness. This is a great turnover from a year or two of living in isolation and dullness.
Moreover, most of the stay will recommend their guests to indulge in outdoor activities rather than staying indoors, focussing specifically on good health. This will not only make them healthy but savor the freshness of the environment. Besides, most hotels promote their services by serving their guests an amalgamation of tasty, organic, hygienic, and healthy food. You bet, you will have the most enjoyable post-pandemic trip ever.
Eco and Sustainable Tourism
Every upheaving consequence in the environment questions human beings to think twice about their way of living. This impact has leaped in bounds to affect their travel decisions too. Every traveler now is smarter and much aware than ever before. Many hotels and lodges are aware of environmental conditions. Hence, they have instilled numerous sustainable initiatives that will further lead to a better impact on the environment. The sustainable impact involves banning the usage of plastic products and introducing the usage of organic local produce.
Thanks to the pandemic, now traveling will take shape in healing the world. In many ways, the pandemic made humans pause and see the dramatic destruction they put through mother earth. Hence, responsible traveling, or rather be called Eco and Sustainable Tourism trend will be emphasized crucially once travel and tourism are fully functional.