Future Of Travel In Post-Covid World

Covid’19 is undoubtedly a black swan (or if I could say Netflix’s Black Mirror) event in the history of mankind and it will lead to irreversible changes in the way we shall lead our life in future. Globally, every life and every business sector has been hit hard by this unprecedented crisis. The travel sector has been the hardest hit and it may never be able to recover completely from the aftershock of Covid’19. Future travel, as we will figure out in due time, will don a completely new look and will undergo what I call as “Redistribution of Travel” as well as “Virtual Substitution”. Let us deep dive to visualise future travel and the fate of the associated travel economy.

• Redistribution of Travel - Will people cease to travel in post Covid’19 world? The answer to this is a firm “No”. In fact, if anything, we shall see a wave of “Revenge Travel” once the travel restrictions ease globally. There is a pent-up demand among consumers to step out of their houses and travel will continue to be a major recreational activity for individuals/families, all the more with given the decline in work travel in the post-Covid world. However,…