The tourism industry will change forever, and the future of travel will place less focus on major tourist destinations. This is what he says Brian Chesky, co-founder in 2008 of the Airbnb vacation rental service.
“The journey as we knew it is over,” Chesky told American news channel CNBC in an interview. “It doesn't mean that the possibility of traveling is over. Except that the way of traveling we knew will never return.”
There will be a redistribution of tourists
“We built an empire in 12 years and lost almost everything in just 4 weeks.” Chesky's summary is brutal, but it gives a good idea of the suddenness of the change and what the future of travel could look like.
However, the pessimism of the Airbnb co-founder is not cosmic and absolute. Chesky simply believes that adaptation is needed. People, he says, will travel less to major tourist cities and instead choose to visit lesser known destinations.
It will take much longer than we thought and it will be different.
“Even working from home could be working from any home”
In the US, Chesky reports that in early June, Airbnb had the same volume of bookings as it did in the same period in 2019. He believes these bookings are due to people traveling domestically.
“People say they want to get out of the house, but they also want to be safe. For now he doesn't want to get on airplanes. He doesn't want to travel for business. He wants to stay in his homeland, not go across the border. What she is willing to do is get in the car and drive a couple of hundred kilometers to a small town, maybe to a second home.”
Smartworking in relaxation
The fall of physical barriers in the workplace as a result of smartworking has led to greater attention to work from home, with people able to work from any location or property.
I think more people will work remotely and that work from home can be work from any home
The new office will be more of a "workhouse"
Architects and designers try to predict how the pandemic and the need for social distancing will impact different types of buildings. I told you a few weeks about the plans entire “anti-Covid” residential districts to reconcile life and work in safety.
In the UK the Manser Practice has imagined the post-pandemic hotel and also suggested that an increased focus on cleanliness could lead to the death of rental services such as Airbnb.
People will want the assurance of a clean, well-maintained space. The future of travel could lead to the undoing of the “molecular and anarchic” accommodation model with consumers moving towards different models.
