Travel Demand
Is Pent-up Travel Demand at an End? It Depends - Travel Weekly
Has the pent-up demand that helped fuel a surge in travel as the pandemic ebbed finally run its course?
Has the pent-up demand that helped fuel a surge in travel as the pandemic ebbed finally run its course?
President Joe Biden took swipes at airlines and hotels Wednesday as he called on Congress to limit certain extra charges they impose on consumers.
TikTok has grown to the seventh largest social media network in the world in recent years and in 2022 its influence on travellers increased by 10 per cent according to a recent survey by MMGY Global.
For some hoteliers, the concepts of peak and off-peak seasons are no longer as relevant as they once were. Thanks to unrelenting pent-up demand, many popular destinations can no longer discern a marked lull in business at certain times of the year.
There are some early signs that travelers may have reached their limit when it comes to hotel pricing.
Several major cruise lines, travel agents and even Google all seem to agree that Europe is in high demand this booking season.
After two years of relaunches and pauses, suppliers and the trade are ramping up marketing again, convinced that the time is right to engage a (mostly) vaccinated and (definitely) pandemic-weary public.
Confronting a protracted labor shortage, hoteliers have struggled to maintain standard operations, much less meet new demands that the pandemic has produced.
Judging from discussions at the Americas Lodging and Investment Summit, 2022 will be a year of widespread changes to hotel loyalty programs, and there will be fierce competition to enlist new members.
As the hotel industry gathered for the Americas Lodging Investment Summit this week, it served as a chance to dive into projections and analysis for the year to come, and a consensus has emerged on both the recovery and the stumbling blocks ahead.