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With COVID-19’s impact on American travel sentiment plummeting and summer travel demand healthy, the majority say they are ready for large events like concerts and festivals—especially if they are outdoors: Yet expectations for destinations to take pandemic precautions remain, both…

As part of Destination Analysts’ ongoing traveling consumer panel series, our industry update webinar on May 11th was followed by an important discussion with LatinX travelers from around the U.S. Moderated by Melissa Elkins, Destination Analysts’ Director of Research, this…

Important momentum towards recovery has occurred for some of the travel industry’s hardest hit segments, including international, convention and urban tourism. However, many traveling consumers are experiencing travel in a way that still appears far from normal.

Many travelers report that the pandemic has changed them, leaving them more budget and safety conscious, and generally more on their guard.

It is no secret that the coronavirus pandemic has crushed the hospitality industry. Hotels especially suffered a devastating blow, with many of them struggling for survival.

Despite acknowledgement of the strong travel demand this summer, many are likely to find that travel prices don’t match their discount-oriented expectations.

Even more Americans than last month—over 70%—are now saying “YES!” to summer vacation. From fewer trips to less concern about crowds, the pandemic both wanes and lingers in travelers’ psyches and consequent trip decisions.

One of our key areas of focus in tracking critical travel trends—and one of the last posts we published—before the onset of the global COVID-19 pandemic ravaged the travel industry, was the impact of climate change and the way it…

There may very well be few businesses in the travel and tourism industry that were left unscathed in the global pandemic’s path.

Even with the theater the humans in the election created, it was marijuana who was largely seen as the prime victor in last November’s election.