Channel: Boston University

Category: Travel & Events

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Description: What is the future of travel in 2022? With COVID restrictions loosening across the country, many industry experts predict that travel will return to pre-pandemic levels in the coming year, with people taking big, ambitious trips after two years of being stuck at home. But the travel industry is not the same as it was, and people’s attitudes toward travel changed greatly during the pandemic. Destination road trips surged. The ability to work and learn remotely prompted people to book “flexcations.” And hotels continued to battle with sites like AirBnb and VRBO for reservations. To understand how the travel industry is changing, BU Today’s executive editor, Doug Most, spoke with Makarand Mody, a School of Hospitality Administration associate professor of hospitality marketing, who shed some light on the future of travel in 2022, and beyond. Want to read this story? Go to: bu.edu/articles/2022/future-of-travel-in-2022 Video Chapters 00:11 Intro to episode - What is the future of travel in 2022? 1:11 What do you see as the future of travel? 3:25 Are there certain types of trips that you think people will be taking in the early months coming out of the pandemic? Smaller trips or big ambitious trips? 4:45 Are flexcations something we're going to see long term? 6:13 Before the pandemic, we had already seen the explosive growth of sites like AirBNB and VRBO. Will the pandemic continue to accelerate that, or will people start going back to the hotel and the resort stays? 7:54 Do you think travel to cities will lag behind other types of vacations? Are people ready to go back to big cities for vacations? 10:12 Outro Never miss an episode! Subscribe to Question of the Week anywhere you listen to podcasts. Spotify: spoti.fi/2WlduO7 Apple Podcasts: apple.co/3zdVGCx Google Podcasts: bit.ly/3gpQ6Ws Subscribe to our YouTube channel @Boston University #Travel #Tourism #BostonUniversity