Top travel trends to watch in 2021

The Covid-19 pandemic has turned the world upside down. While there had been signs that the tourism industry was about to pick up this year, along came a second wave of Covid-19. It may be hard to predict what lies ahead, but allow me to gather some thoughts and list my travel trends for 2021.

STAYCATION

The word has been popular among hotels attempting to attract guests with special offers after the easing of Covid-19 measures last year. However, the term is not new. According to Merriam Webster’s dictionary, “staycation” means a vacation spent at home or nearby. It was used in an advertisement in the Cincinnati Enquirer, an Ohio-based newspaper, on July 18, 1944. The term was also used as a guide of things for Americans to do during World War II by urging people to “take a stay-cation instead of a va-cation, this year”.

Today, hotels have widely…