Will Revenge Travel Save the Tourism Industry?
As the pandemic rages onward, industry experts are looking at a rising trend for hopeful signs of travel’s return.
Jan 14th, 2021
Perhaps no greater crisis in the last decade has turned the global travel industry upside down than the COVID-19 pandemic. Destinations relying heavily on tourism incurred deep losses as flights and hotel bookings disappeared. More painful is the loss of income for workers who rely on the aviation, cruise, and transportation industries for their livelihood.
Yet against the odds, travel is slowly bouncing back. In Singapore, sightseeing flights and cruises to nowhere have been snapped up by customers who badly want the change of scenery even if it means merely circling the airspace over a city or sailing out in the open sea with no end destination in sight.
Hello and welcome to a packed week of theme park news! From a much-anticipated roller coaster s jaw-dropping nighttime display to major Monday morning news that ll change the way you visit Walt Disney World in the future, here s what you must know.
PLANES, TRAINS, AND AUTOMOBILES
Walt Disney World dropped some major news yesterday morning and confirmed your resort hotel stay of the future will differ from that of the past.
Come Jan. 1, 2022 less than a year from now Disney s Magical Express will no longer exist. The massive fleet of buses, operated by Mears Transportation, provided free transportation to any Walt Disney World resort hotel guest, offering convenient and complimentary bus rides between their hotels and Orlando International Airport since it was first introduced in 2005.