Trends 2021: As a pandemic changed the preferences of tourists

After a sharp decline in 2020, the tourism industry is gradually restored. In most countries, there is a vaccination, nevertheless, coronavirus restrictions still affect the behavior of tourists…

Last year, Coronavirus sent the world tourism industry to a cruel nocdown. The number of travel was sharply reduced, and tens of thousands of hotels and travel agencies went bankrupt. According to the United Nations, the International Tourism Industry in 2020 rolled back 30 years ago – To the level of the end of the 80s. In the scale of the entire planet, the industry has undermined about a billion tourists, according to the most modest calculations, the turbines launched incomes of 1.1 trillion. dollars.

According to the World Tourism Organization of the UN, Coronavirus led to the decline of travel numbers by 70-75%

According to the Russian tourism, the coronacrisis has hit to a lesser extent, since the Russian Federation – The largest country of the world. Many travel lovers instead of Turkey went to Sochi, Altai, and someone and Kamchatka. If the volume of world tourism in 2020. Dropped by 72%, then in the Russian Federation (according to Rotturism) recession amounted to only 35-40%. One of the key Russian trends in 2021. continues to be reorientation on trips inside the country. And what other trends are observed in the tourist industry of Russia and abroad against the pandemic background?

Trend number 1: rest without distant trips, near the house

Perhaps the main global trend was t.N. «Stakeyishn». English Theater Staycation formed by the words of Stay + Vacation, the combination of which can be roughly translated as «Vacation near the house». This trend is especially popular in European countries, residents of which cannot freely go to the overseas tour. For example, Berlin residents who are accustomed to relax in Thailand, now massively offered excursions on their own, rich in attractions, the city. And for the same Milanians – Bicycle walks are organized around the surroundings of the metropolis with a visit to historical places in which Lombardy is replete.

Singapores for rest within the Staycation offer to spend the night in the local submarine hotel or in the Loft Room, 12 meters above the jungle

«Stakeyishn» enjoys great popularity, and many people re-discover their native region, which used to seem ordinary and uninteresting. In more or less large countries «Vacation near the house» May be poured into independent car trips to neighboring regions. As a rule, the duration of such tours does not exceed the week, but this is enough to distract from work and feel on vacation.

Trend number 2: Combining work and recreation in an unusual place

Wide distribution in the years of the pandemic received a special type of tourism – T.N. «Travel Living». In Russian Treversaliving translates as «Travel-life». People who choose such a style of knowledge of the world, got the name of digital nomads. They leave for their country and for a long period settle in another state, usually – spa. Here «Travel workers» continue to work remotely in their specialty, combining life in an exotic place with work.

Work remotely right on the Indian beach? Why not?

This tourist trend arose due to the fact that the pandemic forced many firms to translate their employees to «Removenka». So people by and large – No matter what kind of geographic point to press the keyboard buttons: the main thing is that the laptop communicates with the Internet. Popular in digital nomads Points are the Indian state of Goa, Sri Lanka, Bali, Vietnam and other Warm countries of Southeast Asia. Such a kind of tourism is very different from traditional trips. It allows not just to quickly see the sights, but also to plunge into a local daily life.

Trend number 3: booking tours at the last moment

In the docking era, only a narrow layer of tourists seeking to save. It is no secret that burning trips are sometimes sold with large discounts, and there are many instructions for their search. However, in 2020-21. Urgent booking of tours turned from Lifehak to a massive practice. At the very beginning of the pandemic, tourists around the world purchased bitter, but useful experience. Then, due to the urgent closure of the borders, a total cancellation of the tickets occurred. Yes, and now – Never guess: will not be banned once again flights to Turkey.

Pandemic era tourists prefer to jump on the departure platform at the last moment

According to almost all tour operators, the coronacrises have significantly reduced the average reservation depth to a minimum. International tour is usually ordered only 2-3 weeks before it starts. Recently (after a certain softening of coronavirus restrictions), the ticket can be booked and for a month or even two, especially having a certificate of vaccination. Nevertheless, the trend of the order tours at the last moment will continue not only in the current, but next year, the tourism industry professionals are confident.

Trend number 4: close attention to the Cake Safety

Tourists are ready to overpay for minimizing the danger to infect coronavirus. When choosing a tour, travelers pay attention to anticoid measures taken in various accommodation objects. An indisputable competitive advantage of hotels that can boast that 100% of their staff vaccinated. And if a certain Turkish hotel is located near the beach, but in removing from the crowd, its owners have the right to count on an inexhaustible flow of vacationers.

Hotel Coast – One of the most important criteria for choosing an object of placement

Tourists try to go to countries with a favorable epidemiological situation, choosing non-spike dates. Instead of buses with their mass clusters of passengers, people prefer to ride a taxi, although it is more expensive. Pandemic caused growth in popularity of travels to low-cost places with low tourist traffic. It is quite logical and explained. Get to coronavirus on a mountain turbase or in a forest camping – Much less likely than in the Sochi beach, each meter of which is filled with rest.

Trend number 5: The growth of popularity of tours within their country

Well, the most important Russian trend was the explosive growth of interest in inland tourism. The peak of the epidemic acted almost total ban on international flights. During this period, the population of the Volia-Neils was formed a steady trend on travel within his state. In 2020. The tourists on the beach resorts of Crimea and the Krasnodar Territory compared to the dock 2019-M decreased by about a third. However, against the background of Thailand or the Caribbean countries, where the fall was 90%, this can be considered a positive indicator.

Despite the pandemic, Sochi and Crimean beaches in the seasons 2020-2021. clogged under the string

Some regions of the Russian Federation in 2020. Even increased their tourist indicators compared with 2019. For example, the summer tour flow into the Kaliningrad region in 2020. rose 2.3 times, in Karelia – 2 times, and in Dagestan – 40%. Especially won from the Pandemic Altai, where tourists rushed from all over Russia: in the summer season, record 2 million rested here. human. So pandemic – Paradoxically, even helped domestic tourism. The main thing is that after the removal of antivirus restrictions, the Russians did not turn away from domestic travel.