To think in 2019 I was flying across the Atlantic not thinking much of it. Yesterday I felt so privileged to spend a couple hours in a neighboring city less than 15 km away.
Agreed. I travelled all over last year and everyone thought it was too much. Now I'm so blessed to have ignored everyone and travelled a lot as it won't be the same again (or at least it's going to take a long time for it to come close to Pre-Covid)
@Ian Mann uhm "ever"? Disregarding the fact that many countries like Japan for example are open RIGHT NOW and trying to stimulate tourism, once this pandemic is over at least leisure travel at least thr long haul part will recover (I hope short trips more by train). I plan to go to Japan in a few years 😁
Japan is beautiful, and the flight was very expansieve already 2013. With current climate it woud be more expansieve. I am 55 and did a lot of travelling in my days I always say I living in a golden age. But even for the pandanmic You see the cracks already, flight shaming, it is slowing become a rich thing again to fly we are running out of oil ect. My father saved for this yourney to indonesian, when he was in his early 50's, he was from 1923, I was 25 and already was to crete and .egypt. I traveled a lot over seas and I hope to this for a time, but yes it will changing.
It’s been almost 2 years since this video was uploaded. Nothing has changed, but maybe gotten more worse. 2 years of no travelling has left a toll on me. I feel that next time I go on holiday I must appreciate it as much as possible. I feel old and changed. I don’t feel like that guy who I used to be, travelling the world with my loved ones and telling stories to all my friends. Dozing off in school, imagining the next holiday to Casablanca or Antalya, letting my imagination run wild, only to be more amazed than what I thought. Meeting locals and learning their way of life and the scenery that makes me feel like I’m in a movie. The mountains filled with green. Everything I saw online was never even close to my experiences. The delicious fahitas that makes me never feel the same again. I feel great sadness that covid hit now but now I understand I shouldn’t take my experiences for granted.
(sorry for my english) I started my first job in 2020 and I was so excited to finally have money and travel, now i'm working from home office and every day feels the same, I feel sad because I haven't had the chance yet to travel and I'm afraid this pandemic will last longer. People tell me I should take a chance and enjoy life but it still seems so disheartening.
After the pandemic, things will pick up again. There is no need to be too depressing. Let's concentrate on doing what we need to in order to get over this pandemic.
To be fair we were heading into a downward spiral in terms of how globalization wasn't caring for the inevitable environmental crisis. While we can evolve around COVID and get to treatments or a vaccine we can't recover easily from catastrophic earthquakes, rising temperatures that damaged roads and buildings, or floods that take over areas people live in. While we can all agree that the economic repercussions will be brutal and scary we also have to understand that we need to redesign elements of this system because quite possibly if we don't the consequences will be even worse.
It may be questionable to travel now to other countries or places because of Covid-19 and quarantine being a requirement in some countries, but eventually, the situation will improve over time. Hopefully even by the end of the year.
@@smr32061 I feel the reality of many countries like us in South America is too bleak to really consider opening up to tourism from people outside any time soon. Also, places like Sweden that didn't undergo lockdown protocols might get blocked by other countries who did and use this mechanism to protect its people. I highly doubt that travel will return to any noticeable level this calendar year. Until a vaccine isn't in its final stages to be sold I doubt we will see international travel come back.
I feel claustrophobic for not being able to fly anywhere I want to. For people who love to travel and who think travelling is the meaning of life, this is the end 😔
Pfft, please. The moment this "crisis" is over people will completely forget it ever happened the very next day. Because that's just how society is... Everything will go back to normal, just wait
Looking into history, even the hundreds of years with the plague did not change human behaviour in any way. However, we may see changes in the way we travel. Digitalisation will speed up, medical checks might become a regular thing etc.
Indeed! Covid-29 has been GREAT for the rest of the planet which just shows how parasitic humans have become. I don't expect The Economist, which favours economic over sustainable growth, to even mention this, but younger generations are nevertheless, gradually becoming aware of the damage caused by the selfish, greedy lifestyles of older generations.
@@GonzoTehGreat So all those millennials and GenZers, cluttering the streets of Europe and SE Asia with their backpacks, are really just boomers in disguise are they? And, of course, they didn't add to polllution by flying to their destinations, because they can walk on water!
@@stevenpyne1994 No generation alive today is completely free of guilt when it comes to environmental damage, but some are more to blame than others (and some countries more so than others).
couldn't agree more. So many of us have traveled all over the world, but know actually very little about things just a few hundred kilometers away from our home. See your own country. There is beauty everywhere.
Or taking the ultimate journey within by taking a stay-cation. Why not make a thoughtful journey within? We rely entirely too much on cheap fossil fuels. It needs to stop, it's so thoughtlessly wasteful and harmful to the environment.
Media is trying to make this seem like a phase. It isn't a phase and never will be. The solution to the disease is a phase. It's a phase how long people are willing to virtue signaling just to seem kind while being inherently selfish. Coronavirus has in no way stopped human consumption. Only thing the solutions to this exaggerated crisis has done is creating a stronger sense of imprisonment
2 years later it's clear that you guys were dead wrong. Air travel is back to normal, even with covid still around. Stop making predictions please, you clearly have no idea.
@@rvotheory huh? I'm not offended. I just think that it is too early to make a declaration that travel will "never" be the same. Never is a long, long time.
where do your t-shirts come from, your sneakers, your phone? Your veggies and your oranges, your wine, your bacon and your steaks? Where was your furniture produced? Not in Sweden, I guess. Self sufficiency is a fairy tale.
We have all that in Canada the problem is this global economic system that relys on cheap labour for companies to make rediculous profits to feed the share holders and stock markets keep the rich getting richer
Well, get over it. Most of you will die soon and we will have better world, I've been living around the world since child alone. A truly complete multiracial and multilingual, while most of you are failures narrow-minded monoracial disable.
A lot of non-essential business travel will be eliminated or reduced, especially because virtual meetings that are preferred by most staff to being out of the office for one or two days for a 1/2 day or less of work.
2:12 This leads to the conclusion that a big share of all business travel was essentially pointless, and can easily be replaced with remote meetings over the internet, saving companies time and money.
Whatever happens, I’m so glad I made travel and experience of different cultures one of top focuses. I’ve done enough and have memories to last me a lifetime...
We are one small family of 4 in Bavaria, Germany. 2019... 4 vacations... Italy, Czech, France, usa. €8,000. 2020: 0. €0. 2021: maybe 2 locally close holidays €1000+. Less travel, drive.... but spend more on nicer hotels and fancier food is only change. 2022: still wondering if we will Go on our AIDA cruise that we had pre paid for 2020..now Feb 2022 in Canary Islands...we will see in a year
Well, yes, but the questions are how long will that take and how many will die in the meantime? Not to mention how long will economic recovery take.....
How do you know that things will improve over time, unless COVID19 and the rest of the members of the Corona and flu viruses have told you what you what their plan are. As the planet warms and humans put further stress on nature, there will be more viral pathogens that will start cause mayhem and disruptions in human civilization.
Efficiency is never going to tackle flying Fossil Fuel emissions. Planes are already 4 or 5 times more efficient than in the 70's but that lowered cost of travel and so increased demand (see Jevons paradox). As a result, we now produce much more emissions than in the 70's with less efficient airplanes.
Only the upper class will continue to travel. COVID-19 has made them even wealthier and they will only be happier to visit places that are much less crowded than they used to be. The story is the same again. The rich get richer and their lives get better, but for the rest of us, it's the complete opposite. In the end, it's the rest of us who will keep toiling our lives away so that rich kids can afford to travel around and have meaningful lives.
For European travel figures. It would be interesting to know if Air Travelers switched to train traveling. In Europe, it's much easier to travel by rail due to it's decades of rail investment. In the United States, there are no train networks that can take you from one end of the country to the other. Train travel is non-existent in the U.S., unless you are in the North East Corridor .
I can't believe they say business travellors subsidise leisure travellors. Without coach passengers, there will not be any flights. Additionally first or business class seats do not get filled up many if not most of the time.
Yes, airfare will be more expensive, but consider that the hotel, food and other tourist serving entities will be come less expensive due to lowered demand. So all in all, it may be a wash for international travelers over time.
Are you sure about this, Dave? Wouldn't the prices of hotels and cafes raise with the airfare? Wouldn't those other industries want to recoup their loses? I was looking at a November stay in San Juan, Puerto Rico for the month of November (2020.) The airfare was reasonable (SouthWest) but the hotel (La Concha) was outrageous. More expensive than the previous year. I think a lot of stay at home travelers have saved their money, looking at the end of the pandemic. The hotels, restaurants and cafes know this, so, the prices edge up.
@@brucemarsico6 no way . The hotels are running at break even point now in most of asia $20 hotels are now $10 with free food . Hotels and services compete with each other when the demand is less
@@dontamba4919 Not so, Don. Many many things are grossly over priced and the demand for such has not diminished. Like, celebrity endorsed sneaker shoes, designer label hand bags, champagne, air fares, baggage fees, hotel rooms, resort fees, gourmet foods, restaurant meals, new automobiles, perfumes, women's make up, women's shoes, movie tickets, home delivered pizza....the list goes on and on and the demand only increases. Sorry Don, you're wrong..........................
Hopefully it won't be the same! Tourism industry including more and more flights are one of the reasons the earth's ecological system is on the edge of breakdown! How can this video only put the spotlight on economics? That's ridiculous!
Dear web surfers and people of Earth privileged to see this message. I want to let you know that Corina virus has been among us for a long time. It’s been in the us since 2018... I attended a video game tournament where people all around the world join in to play against each other. In this tournament there were people from Japan, China, and South Korea. All participants from this country were wearing face masks at this tourney in 2018.... your welcome stay safe and beautifully positive
Of course it has been already around the world in 2018. In Spain and in Italy, the virus was found in the waste water in 2018. I had a roommate in Montreal, who had a very terrible cold and coughed all day long. Her cough was very rough. I suspect her having this virus already. But we stayed distanced. Ironically, I met a young woman in Mississauga earlier that year and she recommended face masks when people had cold on the bus.
in Asia, it has been common to wear masks anyway, to generally be wary of any virus that is airborne. they are more used to these kinds of measurements
Globalisation isn’t exactly a great thing. We do need to move to more localised trade and manufacturing for the sake of the planet anyway - this in some respects is a blessing but obviously with a massive downside.
theoretically a globalised world could be more efficient if invisible costs like environmental damage were taken into account. Under our current economic system, though, you're probably right.
Your Boy Mr Mac I’m not sure how it could be even in theory as it’s a question of energy consumption. The further you send something or someone, the more energy it requires and it isn’t possible to have energy with 0 environmental cost - that’s just people ignoring harvesting, manufacturing, refining, transportation etc. It all uses energy and that means pollution unfortunately.
@@jaimemoreno8866 Have you ever watched any of the customs reality shows, what isn't smuggled through ports and by road, mostly goes through airports as freight or on or in people or in their luggage?
A lot of the jobs that will be lost now would have been lost in a few years as well, the virus burst a debt bubble and accelerated change, e.g. in office work. I hope that many meetings will be permanently cancelled in most organisations, drastically increasing productivity. Many countries will come up with extended visas, allowing remote workers-Bermuda just announced the first one. So there may be less travel but for extended periods.
@@jadis40 not really..i feel like people have learnt a lot of new things and have been heavily awaken during this perois...that will never change, trust
I almost did a video on "the future of travel" earlier this year, but during my research, the coronavirus pandemic started and I paused the project. It's crazy how much has changed since then... I hope that the future of travel is better than before. Time will tell
Personal opinion: I don't think we'll ever fully go back to the way things were. But that's not necessarily a bad thing. Once we fully adapt to the lockdown, we will probably see a world that's safer, more controlled and more productive than the one before. Chances of violence and the contraction of other diseases will decrease, and less work hours will be spent on traveling, among other things. I believe we're experiencing the ”growing pains” of this transition now. People will start feeling better about this eventually.
I live in Hawaii and our main sector is tourism. Fortunately for me I do not work in this sector and was fortunate my employer was able to arrange a work at home situation for the the time being.
There's is huge disturbance going on in Indo Pacific region . I wish you make video on it . All China , USA , India , Vietnam , Philippines , Australia and asean countries are face off and just inch away from worse .
I have just come to know that STA Travel went bankruptcy. Really sad as it was once a big part of my life as a globetrotter able to travel overseas with reasonable prices, as well as shaping all my precious memories of traveling as the bright young thing .....
@@jismy012 Go to the Economist channel and look at the list of videos or just search for this video and look at the search results. It shows 7:47 on the video's icon.
I hope so as I like travel, and feel how insignificant London England is in the scheme of the world. Its made me more balanced and enriched my outlook.
Ouch! "Lord! Turn the distressing cares of Thy holy ones into ease, their hardship into comfort, their abasement into glory, their sorrow into blissful joy, O Thou that holdest in Thy grasp the reins of all mankind!" ~ ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Baha'i Faith
@@DiscipleOfHeavyMeta1 Yes it will. I work in aviation and went through this with 9-11. Traffic is down but steady. Between a vaccine, herd immunity, blind optimism, and plain old subborness people will continue to travel for business and pleasure.
@@redcat9436 I'm literally becoming depressed just listening to BC, this video and the economist. Travel to Singapore for example has enriched my life, India, Hong Kong.
Travelling will probably remain tedious and extremely difficult. International travel will probably not be possible for most people for the next decades ahead. Most travellers will either be from the upper classes or will be people visiting familly members abroad, travelling for work or travelling for business. International tourism will be a thing of the past - something relegated to some sort of "Golden Age of Travel", when international travel was easy and relatively affordable and most people could afford to simply get a passport, hop in a plane and travel all around the world. It would be remembered to have taken place between roughly between the 1950s, peaking in the 1970s when flight speed was at its fastest and tickets at their cheapests all the way to the 2010s and ending with the COVID-19 Pandemic in 2019-2020.
@@Katie-vn2xq Lucky you. I've always wanted to travel, but I've never had the financial means to do it and with COVID-19, it pretty much reduced my odds of seeing the world to zero.
It probably will be the same after many, many years, but I am afraid that COVID-19 will lead the end of globalization. No more cheap flight to your favoriate vacation destination.....Well, hopefully I am wrong.
Part of what global elites and government want is increased surveillance and greater wealth disparity. This allows them to maintain more control over people, and between nations. This is what bored billionaires do, they mettle in the affairs of others and try to ensure that the upper class doesn't grow too much (they need a lower class to justify their interventions).
About the "end of globalization" I would suggest you to read the famous and very informative book "The end of growth" by Jeff Rubin. Published in 2012, it still is very relevant today.
@@vonschenck6464 Climate change is not at all the biggest threat to environment. Poverty actually is. The doomsday climate alarmist could really just be ignored. "Dump all your money here instead of there, because we actually want to keep people in poverty in order to retain our position of power" is the message from climate alarmists. Checkout the book from this environmentalist, "Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All." The climate change hysteria parallels covid hysteria, "We must have a vaccine in order to go back to normal." There is always some sort of hysterical binary, and that is my cue to completely ignore it, because then I know it's fake (there is almost never "only one saving" option for anything LoL) Just people pushing their financial agenda and looking for your support and to capitalize on you being afraid. No thanks, I'll be helping the poor rather than worry about cow farts.
A business which profits from threatening the safe operating space of humanity should not be supported, it is rather the opposite. The flight industry has not worked on solutions on the climate crises, because they used the lack of international regulations to allow carosine to be nearly tax free. This is now an opportunity to create incentives for air travel to apply to the paris agreement in order to earn government aid. This will not help the issue of inequalities created through the lack of tourism, but at least may mitigate climate change (which is also an inequality)
Downsides of the collapse of the travel industry: lost jobs, bankruptcies. Upsides: Less stress on the environment between fewer carbon emissions, less people crowding into paradise destinations like Phuket. Less brain drain. Now stand out students with graduate degrees in Pakistan or Nigeria will be forced to stay home and contribute to development in those countries versus just moving to the USA or Europe for better pay. This comment could get quite long. Much more to list on the silver lining side of the ledger.
There are still plans going ahead to develop more high-speed trains in Europe. Why are they just focusing on air travel and the economic divide there? Many new jobs will be created and imagine if the Americas and Africa also had high speed trains.
This video is pure speculation meaning, it may or may never happen. I remain hopeful that it will eventually come back because that's what people want...to travel...and they will.
I work for a leisure boat company in the US and we all thought no one will rent boats for leisure, but since coronavirus the opposite has been true, our demand skyrocketed and we saw numbers we never saw before in boat rental numbers. Tourism will pick up extremely fast mark my words
Demand will gradually return but the aviation industry will already have changed by then. Journalists tend to exaggerate in order to sell their stories, so this video speculates about more extreme scenarios than what will probably occur. For example, the idea that commercial aviation will return to how it was 50+ years ago is absurd. However, we should expect significant disruptive changes for the next few years, as was the case after 911.
Hope leads to disappointment. What people want is irrelevant. The point is that mass travel from before is inherently unsustainable and cannot possibly return without causing significant damage to the environment and spreading pathogens around for vulnurable people to catch and die from.
Too pessimistic. Less travel doesn't mean less globalised and more divisions. The Internet has made it possible for all of us, coming from different places, to connect in ways the 20th century couldn't have imagined. I think that analysis needs some revision.
Governments shouldn't be subsidizing airline companies to make flying more affordable. If the conversation is about equity, they should be designing ways in which those less fortunate could apply for funding directly. There is no need for the airline to be part of such a policy.
Airline personnel will lose their jobs regardless of bailouts, because money is going towards airline surveillance technology that no one actually needs, rather than going to help people who need jobs. We are being forced to pay for our own surveillance.
I have been itching to travel. But then I think it's my responsibility as an American, and a world citizen, not to risk spreading COVID and am still "re-discovering" my local area for the 5th time.
Tony, how shall I put this. Only the greatest zealots are willing to live like medieval peasants (i.e. never leaving their hometown in their life) to help the environment.
Government bailouts to airlines is imoral considering the huge pollution both carbon and noise that airlines and airports are inflicting in the environment and people without facing any limitations and penalties unkike other highly polluting industries. Major DOWNSIZE and even airline closures is absolutely needed if we are to bend the curve of climate change in time of avoiding major catastrophe.
there may be none as more people will drive now for holidays polluting more . There could be more EVs to but its not a simple as less flights better for environment
The thought that international travel may not return to pre pandemic levels for years if ever is a very depressing thought 😭 Fingers crossed you're wrong. 🤞
NO, IT WON'T BE.......ALL COVID-BELIEVING LUNATICS WILL TRAVEL ONLY TO MENTAL ASYLUM WITH 'ONE WAY' TICKETS; AND A SMALL PERCENTAGE OF US WILL LEAD NORMAL LIVES, AND GET NEWS UPDATES OF HOW MANY COVID-LUNATICS ENTERED WHICH MENTAL ASYLUMS, AND STAYED THERE FOREVER.
To think in 2019 I was flying across the Atlantic not thinking much of it. Yesterday I felt so privileged to spend a couple hours in a neighboring city less than 15 km away.
Agreed. I travelled all over last year and everyone thought it was too much. Now I'm so blessed to have ignored everyone and travelled a lot as it won't be the same again (or at least it's going to take a long time for it to come close to Pre-Covid)
@Ian Mann uhm "ever"?
Disregarding the fact that many countries like Japan for example are open RIGHT NOW and trying to stimulate tourism, once this pandemic is over at least leisure travel at least thr long haul part will recover (I hope short trips more by train).
I plan to go to Japan in a few years 😁
Japan is beautiful, and the flight was very expansieve already 2013. With current climate it woud be more expansieve. I am 55 and did a lot of travelling in my days I always say I living in a golden age. But even for the pandanmic You see the cracks already, flight shaming, it is slowing become a rich thing again to fly we are running out of oil ect. My father saved for this yourney to indonesian, when he was in his early 50's, he was from 1923, I was 25 and already was to crete and .egypt. I traveled a lot over seas and I hope to this for a time, but yes it will changing.
I think sometimes we need this hit of reality to be able to appreciate what we have
I crossed the Atlantic for the first time just 1 month before transatlantic travel was banned!
It’s been almost 2 years since this video was uploaded. Nothing has changed, but maybe gotten more worse. 2 years of no travelling has left a toll on me. I feel that next time I go on holiday I must appreciate it as much as possible. I feel old and changed. I don’t feel like that guy who I used to be, travelling the world with my loved ones and telling stories to all my friends. Dozing off in school, imagining the next holiday to Casablanca or Antalya, letting my imagination run wild, only to be more amazed than what I thought. Meeting locals and learning their way of life and the scenery that makes me feel like I’m in a movie. The mountains filled with green. Everything I saw online was never even close to my experiences. The delicious fahitas that makes me never feel the same again. I feel great sadness that covid hit now but now I understand I shouldn’t take my experiences for granted.
(sorry for my english) I started my first job in 2020 and I was so excited to finally have money and travel, now i'm working from home office and every day feels the same, I feel sad because I haven't had the chance yet to travel and I'm afraid this pandemic will last longer. People tell me I should take a chance and enjoy life but it still seems so disheartening.
Am I the only one that was suprised 200,000 people flew through Heathrow in April? That still seems crazy to me.
On average that's only about 250 people per hour. Not unreasonable.
No before pandemic, it was 200K per day' at Heathrow, according to this report.
Some people had to go back home!
Was that 100,000 people came to fly out and 100,000 told to go back home?
Or 200,000 actually flew??
Life goes on. It shouldn't be surprising.
After the pandemic, things will pick up again. There is no need to be too depressing. Let's concentrate on doing what we need to in order to get over this pandemic.
Yea all these recent articles are far too depressing, especially with the situation as it is. Is it really so hard to just be positive in these days?
Exactly that's what I'm doing , even tho I canceled my vacation this year 😭
Things will change though
Thinkgs are picking up *during* the pandemic. I just got back from vacation.
@@souma331 For a lot of People, yes. I blame the media.
To be fair we were heading into a downward spiral in terms of how globalization wasn't caring for the inevitable environmental crisis. While we can evolve around COVID and get to treatments or a vaccine we can't recover easily from catastrophic earthquakes, rising temperatures that damaged roads and buildings, or floods that take over areas people live in. While we can all agree that the economic repercussions will be brutal and scary we also have to understand that we need to redesign elements of this system because quite possibly if we don't the consequences will be even worse.
Well, all right then, I suppose that I don't need to comment now. 😂
@@billyfox6368 Hahaha this has been on my mind for weeks now
Agree 100%
It may be questionable to travel now to other countries or places because of Covid-19 and quarantine being a requirement in some countries, but eventually, the situation will improve over time. Hopefully even by the end of the year.
@@smr32061 I feel the reality of many countries like us in South America is too bleak to really consider opening up to tourism from people outside any time soon. Also, places like Sweden that didn't undergo lockdown protocols might get blocked by other countries who did and use this mechanism to protect its people. I highly doubt that travel will return to any noticeable level this calendar year. Until a vaccine isn't in its final stages to be sold I doubt we will see international travel come back.
Thumbnail: “Will travel ever be the same?”
Title: “No, travel will never be the same”
Me: Cool
Production team needs some syncing 😂
@Mario Glory can we bring COVID?
You missed:
Video: Travel will be the same after some years.
The world is a person my friends ..and be thankful if we still can go out for exercise
Blazers Goat TEN bring some corona beers when you can lol
I feel claustrophobic for not being able to fly anywhere I want to. For people who love to travel and who think travelling is the meaning of life, this is the end 😔
Pfft, please. The moment this "crisis" is over people will completely forget it ever happened the very next day. Because that's just how society is... Everything will go back to normal, just wait
Normal is gone forever...get wayyyy used to it.
@NonyaBusiness! Nonya Business!
that never gonna be over
Looking into history, even the hundreds of years with the plague did not change human behaviour in any way. However, we may see changes in the way we travel. Digitalisation will speed up, medical checks might become a regular thing etc.
you assumed the crisis will be over, and I doubt when will that happen
Nothing will ever be the same again. We've just experienced another world wide revolution.
Earth says I can't take all these people and their pollution anymore.
Indeed! Covid-29 has been GREAT for the rest of the planet which just shows how parasitic humans have become.
I don't expect The Economist, which favours economic over sustainable growth, to even mention this, but younger generations are nevertheless, gradually becoming aware of the damage caused by the selfish, greedy lifestyles of older generations.
Overpopulation has made it easiest for the virus to transmit. We are witnessing a phase of natural selection.
@Douglas waterman Conservatives and right wing idiots are just as bad.
@@GonzoTehGreat So all those millennials and GenZers, cluttering the streets of Europe and SE Asia with their backpacks, are really just boomers in disguise are they? And, of course, they didn't add to polllution by flying to their destinations, because they can walk on water!
@@stevenpyne1994 No generation alive today is completely free of guilt when it comes to environmental damage, but some are more to blame than others (and some countries more so than others).
So why will travel NEVER be the same again. You did not answer that.
How about you answer it
Yes they did? No more cheap flights for a long time and many carriers will go under. DUH.
Travel is your own personal journey. This may be the best time to discover the gems in your own country.
couldn't agree more. So many of us have traveled all over the world, but know actually very little about things just a few hundred kilometers away from our home. See your own country. There is beauty everywhere.
I guess there isn't anything I can do when I can walk across my country in a day. (Maybe I'll just walk across my country in a day?)
John Williams I recommend GeoWizard’s “Trip across Wales in a straight line” for inspiration
Or taking the ultimate journey within by taking a stay-cation. Why not make a thoughtful journey within?
We rely entirely too much on cheap fossil fuels. It needs to stop, it's so thoughtlessly wasteful and harmful to the environment.
@@ThePayola123 exactly. A psilocybic voyage costs almost nothing, and you get to see things you'll never see at the gift shop at the Louvre.
thx to coronavirus I got a chance to get to know my family, you know what there are really nice people.
I think quite a few people discovered the opposite!
Can’t stand my family!!
I need to get out of this house asap
Quarantine makes me really wish I didn't live alone.
I would be enjoying my solitude during this crisis if i was still working.
Thankfully the industry I work in is doing great still. I’m fortunate and I feel empathy for those who aren’t as lucky.
The only nation I visited in 2020:
Imagination
Me Dubai in January
Is that just an illusion?
Me The UK till feb
Procrastination says hi
True
“Why travel will never be the same”
The permanent change narrative is a consistent theme everywhere
Media is trying to make this seem like a phase.
It isn't a phase and never will be. The solution to the disease is a phase. It's a phase how long people are willing to virtue signaling just to seem kind while being inherently selfish.
Coronavirus has in no way stopped human consumption. Only thing the solutions to this exaggerated crisis has done is creating a stronger sense of imprisonment
@@sebastianwallin3726 exactly 💯 and fear
2 years later it's clear that you guys were dead wrong. Air travel is back to normal, even with covid still around. Stop making predictions please, you clearly have no idea.
"Never" is quite the definitive word folks. I would not say "never". No basis to use that word...yet.
Give it 2 yrs then all normal im sure
To use the word never like this is like being defeated, I'm offended and gonna report this
@@rvotheory huh? I'm not offended. I just think that it is too early to make a declaration that travel will "never" be the same. Never is a long, long time.
@@mariopop If medicine is found then its normal
@@mariopop Exactly
Stay home and countries should become more self sufficient
where do your t-shirts come from, your sneakers, your phone? Your veggies and your oranges, your wine, your bacon and your steaks? Where was your furniture produced? Not in Sweden, I guess. Self sufficiency is a fairy tale.
We have all that in Canada the problem is this global economic system that relys on cheap labour for companies to make rediculous profits to feed the share holders and stock markets keep the rich getting richer
dusan stankovic, i actually thought you were somewhere in eastern europe. they can afford to stay home its mostly countryside anyway.
I can't imagine being able to hug my friends anymore. cant believe we used to do that
Dont worry please, you still can
The media likes to create fear and seperate people, its unfortunanetly the first unwritten rule..
Fortunately for me, where the virus is concerned nothing much changed; except where I have to adhere to rules when in public.
Life is short. Hug the people you love.
I love how this video is exactly 7:47
Think it will bounce back sooner than expected.
When normal flights resume the prices will be expensive for years. The airlines have to get their losses back.
Some smart entreprenaurs will come up with the idea of buget flights.
Nothing.. Literally nothing is gonna change !! You cannot cage people for long!!
Well, get over it. Most of you will die soon and we will have better world, I've been living around the world since child alone.
A truly complete multiracial and multilingual, while most of you are failures narrow-minded monoracial disable.
@@RIZFERD Are you depressed ?
A lot of non-essential business travel will be eliminated or reduced, especially because virtual meetings that are preferred by most staff to being out of the office for one or two days for a 1/2 day or less of work.
Just like nothing changed after 9/11
You can...unemployed people
Thumbnail: will travel ever be the same?
Title: Why travel will never be the same
-_-
You guys neither giving any data nor any kind of reliable source except anticipations.
tldr: business travel will be slightly lower for a few years, maybe.
Thank you.
tldr: you're an idiot
haha yup
It will be EXACTLY the same in 2022.
Don’t say that
2:12 This leads to the conclusion that a big share of all business travel was essentially pointless, and can easily be replaced with remote meetings over the internet, saving companies time and money.
Whatever happens, I’m so glad I made travel and experience of different cultures one of top focuses. I’ve done enough and have memories to last me a lifetime...
Thanks
Thanks for the info
Some people are actually YOUNG and never had the chance to start travelling
So people are actually "YOUNG", and never had experience for traveling.
We are one small family of 4 in Bavaria, Germany. 2019... 4 vacations... Italy, Czech, France, usa. €8,000. 2020: 0. €0. 2021: maybe 2 locally close holidays €1000+. Less travel, drive.... but spend more on nicer hotels and fancier food is only change. 2022: still wondering if we will Go on our AIDA cruise that we had pre paid for 2020..now Feb 2022 in Canary Islands...we will see in a year
Of course, once all is under control we'll forget all about Coronavirus.
I'm on your side. This will be forgotten one day soon, within this generation
@@cobalius You can say that again.
Yeah the vaccine will handle that part.
Well, yes, but the questions are how long will that take and how many will die in the meantime? Not to mention how long will economic recovery take.....
How do you know that things will improve over time, unless COVID19 and the rest of the members of the Corona and flu viruses have told you what you what their plan are. As the planet warms and humans put further stress on nature, there will be more viral pathogens that will start cause mayhem and disruptions in human civilization.
I really doubt you guys can predict the future so well. We'll see what happens when the pandemic is over
Because of the sin in the world
Travelling will never be the same is too exaggerated.
Efficiency is never going to tackle flying Fossil Fuel emissions. Planes are already 4 or 5 times more efficient than in the 70's but that lowered cost of travel and so increased demand (see Jevons paradox). As a result, we now produce much more emissions than in the 70's with less efficient airplanes.
Glad i got to atleast travel for 3 years as normal traveler before this started. Just bummed i wont be able to move as freely now
i have been to 200 cities in Asia, so im not too sad.
Wow...people still do Airbnb?
That's like the dirtiest possible way of accommodations.
Hmm, you obviously never stayed at a certain hotel in Morocco I once did....
@@gavanwhatever8196
Definitely not.
Just 3 times in the USA.....and I was done.
@@Dangic23 Never done AirBnB in the US. Most of the ones I used in Europe were great.
1:50
IATA chief says until 2023
Narrator : Several years.
He's dreaming.
people have less money so travel will never be the same
Only the upper class will continue to travel. COVID-19 has made them even wealthier and they will only be happier to visit places that are much less crowded than they used to be.
The story is the same again. The rich get richer and their lives get better, but for the rest of us, it's the complete opposite. In the end, it's the rest of us who will keep toiling our lives away so that rich kids can afford to travel around and have meaningful lives.
For European travel figures. It would be interesting to know if Air Travelers switched to train traveling. In Europe, it's much easier to travel by rail due to it's decades of rail investment. In the United States, there are no train networks that can take you from one end of the country to the other. Train travel is non-existent in the U.S., unless you are in the North East Corridor .
I can't believe they say business travellors subsidise leisure travellors. Without coach passengers, there will not be any flights. Additionally first or business class seats do not get filled up many if not most of the time.
Yes, airfare will be more expensive, but consider that the hotel, food and other tourist serving entities will be come less expensive due to lowered demand. So all in all, it may be a wash for international travelers over time.
Are you sure about this, Dave? Wouldn't the prices of hotels and cafes raise with the airfare? Wouldn't those other industries want to recoup their loses? I was looking at a November stay in San Juan, Puerto Rico for the month of November (2020.) The airfare was reasonable (SouthWest) but the hotel (La Concha) was outrageous. More expensive than the previous year. I think a lot of stay at home travelers have saved their money, looking at the end of the pandemic. The hotels, restaurants and cafes know this, so, the prices edge up.
@@brucemarsico6 no way . The hotels are running at break even point now in most of asia $20 hotels are now $10 with free food . Hotels and services compete with each other when the demand is less
@@dontamba4919 Not so, Don. Many many things are grossly over priced and the demand for such has not diminished. Like, celebrity endorsed sneaker shoes, designer label hand bags, champagne, air fares, baggage fees, hotel rooms, resort fees, gourmet foods, restaurant meals, new automobiles, perfumes, women's make up, women's shoes, movie tickets, home delivered pizza....the list goes on and on and the demand only increases. Sorry Don, you're wrong..........................
Hopefully it won't be the same! Tourism industry including more and more flights are one of the reasons the earth's ecological system is on the edge of breakdown! How can this video only put the spotlight on economics? That's ridiculous!
This is great for nature conservation and reduced CO2 emissions. The future of tourism is really bleak after the sea levels rise...
Dear web surfers and people of Earth privileged to see this message. I want to let you know that Corina virus has been among us for a long time. It’s been in the us since 2018... I attended a video game tournament where people all around the world join in to play against each other. In this tournament there were people from Japan, China, and South Korea. All participants from this country were wearing face masks at this tourney in 2018.... your welcome stay safe and beautifully positive
Of course it has been already around the world in 2018. In Spain and in Italy, the virus was found in the waste water in 2018.
I had a roommate in Montreal, who had a very terrible cold and coughed all day long. Her cough was very rough. I suspect her having this virus already. But we stayed distanced. Ironically, I met a young woman in Mississauga earlier that year and she recommended face masks when people had cold on the bus.
in Asia, it has been common to wear masks anyway, to generally be wary of any virus that is airborne. they are more used to these kinds of measurements
Globalisation isn’t exactly a great thing. We do need to move to more localised trade and manufacturing for the sake of the planet anyway - this in some respects is a blessing but obviously with a massive downside.
theoretically a globalised world could be more efficient if invisible costs like environmental damage were taken into account. Under our current economic system, though, you're probably right.
Your Boy Mr Mac I’m not sure how it could be even in theory as it’s a question of energy consumption. The further you send something or someone, the more energy it requires and it isn’t possible to have energy with 0 environmental cost - that’s just people ignoring harvesting, manufacturing, refining, transportation etc. It all uses energy and that means pollution unfortunately.
KELLI2L2 I’m not quite following you?
it disrupted daily lives and routines and grinded the ecomonies to a halt and overwhelmed our health care systems.
The international drug smuggling network could be taken out by COVID 19 restrictions.
Yes of course because they are all such law abiding citizens .. 😱
That sounds so naive...
you don't need covid restriction to ship "illegal" drugs....
@@jaimemoreno8866 Have you ever watched any of the customs reality shows, what isn't smuggled through ports and by road, mostly goes through airports as freight or on or in people or in their luggage?
I am cool with that - with less flight traffic we can finally have less air pollution and less noise pollution!
Its not just travel. Nothing will be the same after covid
Sure it will. It'll take some time. I'm hoping we'll be closer to true normal next year.
A lot of the jobs that will be lost now would have been lost in a few years as well, the virus burst a debt bubble and accelerated change, e.g. in office work. I hope that many meetings will be permanently cancelled in most organisations, drastically increasing productivity. Many countries will come up with extended visas, allowing remote workers-Bermuda just announced the first one. So there may be less travel but for extended periods.
@@jadis40 not really..i feel like people have learnt a lot of new things and have been heavily awaken during this perois...that will never change, trust
You are correct.
Its called Devine JUDGMENT
*Yeshayah / Isaiah 24*
In China the wet markets are open again and ready to create another pandemic...
I almost did a video on "the future of travel" earlier this year, but during my research, the coronavirus pandemic started and I paused the project. It's crazy how much has changed since then... I hope that the future of travel is better than before. Time will tell
All the best to you
I can’t wait to the day when we go back to how 2019 was.
Personal opinion: I don't think we'll ever fully go back to the way things were. But that's not necessarily a bad thing. Once we fully adapt to the lockdown, we will probably see a world that's safer, more controlled and more productive than the one before. Chances of violence and the contraction of other diseases will decrease, and less work hours will be spent on traveling, among other things. I believe we're experiencing the ”growing pains” of this transition now. People will start feeling better about this eventually.
I live in Hawaii and our main sector is tourism. Fortunately for me I do not work in this sector and was fortunate my employer was able to arrange a work at home situation for the the time being.
yeah meanwhile people are literally dancing in Europe tourist places
what do you mean ?
Cherubino I think it means EU citizens are happy the foreigners aren’t crowding their spaces.
Yes, ppl don't have to shoulder the crowd in order to get grocery shopping
Cherubino I went just came back from Crete no social distancing really and the nightlife is pretty much back to normal lol corona doesn’t exist
Because we are WAKE!
Air travel SHOULD be expensive
There's is huge disturbance going on in Indo Pacific region . I wish you make video on it . All China , USA , India , Vietnam , Philippines , Australia and asean countries are face off and just inch away from worse .
Let's speak plainly. It's China v USA, India, Vietnam, Philippines, Australia etc.
I have just come to know that STA Travel went bankruptcy. Really sad as it was once a big part of my life as a globetrotter able to travel overseas with reasonable prices, as well as shaping all my precious memories of traveling as the bright young thing .....
The duration of this video is 7:47. Coincidence?
7:46
@@jismy012 Go to the Economist channel and look at the list of videos or just search for this video and look at the search results. It shows 7:47 on the video's icon.
Yes
Video does not state 'Why travel will never be the same'.
Person reading this video title in 2025 will laugh 😂
I hope so as I like travel, and feel how insignificant London England is in the scheme of the world. Its made me more balanced and enriched my outlook.
Ouch! "Lord! Turn the distressing cares of Thy holy ones into ease, their hardship into comfort, their abasement into glory, their sorrow into blissful joy, O Thou that holdest in Thy grasp the reins of all mankind!" ~ ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Baha'i Faith
This is alarmism. Travel will return to normal.
This is denialism. Travel will never return to normal and you know it.
@@DiscipleOfHeavyMeta1 Yes it will. I work in aviation and went through this with 9-11. Traffic is down but steady. Between a vaccine, herd immunity, blind optimism, and plain old subborness people will continue to travel for business and pleasure.
@@redcat9436 I'm literally becoming depressed just listening to BC, this video and the economist. Travel to Singapore for example has enriched my life, India, Hong Kong.
@@DiscipleOfHeavyMeta1 bruh you were the other guy from that comment STOP BEING NEGATIVE.
@@blazeofficial6292 Just wait...
I am so fortunate to live in Italy. Many wonderful places to visit and great food. Would hate to be stuck in the cesspool that is america
I'm an anthropologist. I appreciate this report.
tourist ruin communities.
Travelling will probably remain tedious and extremely difficult. International travel will probably not be possible for most people for the next decades ahead. Most travellers will either be from the upper classes or will be people visiting familly members abroad, travelling for work or travelling for business. International tourism will be a thing of the past - something relegated to some sort of "Golden Age of Travel", when international travel was easy and relatively affordable and most people could afford to simply get a passport, hop in a plane and travel all around the world. It would be remembered to have taken place between roughly between the 1950s, peaking in the 1970s when flight speed was at its fastest and tickets at their cheapests all the way to the 2010s and ending with the COVID-19 Pandemic in 2019-2020.
What a boring future. Especially for younger people
@@Katie-vn2xq I'm sure glad I didn't grow up in these conditions.
@@DiscipleOfHeavyMeta1 me too...I've seen so many beautiful places during the last 10+ years and I'm really thankful for that.
@@Katie-vn2xq Lucky you. I've always wanted to travel, but I've never had the financial means to do it and with COVID-19, it pretty much reduced my odds of seeing the world to zero.
Will travel ever be the same? Only if the ants realize they outnumber the grasshoppers.
The era of peak international travel is officially over. Hope you saw the world!
@M H you doin it wrong!
sure. go and tell it to the music industry.
@M H you idiot....stay home
Yeah I saw the world and I plan to see more thank you very much.
Once there is a vaccine or drug and this pandemic is behind us i AM going on a holiday to Japan and nothing will stop me lol
It probably will be the same after many, many years, but I am afraid that COVID-19 will lead the end of globalization. No more cheap flight to your favoriate vacation destination.....Well, hopefully I am wrong.
Part of what global elites and government want is increased surveillance and greater wealth disparity. This allows them to maintain more control over people, and between nations. This is what bored billionaires do, they mettle in the affairs of others and try to ensure that the upper class doesn't grow too much (they need a lower class to justify their interventions).
Hopefully you're right don't you mean... the only way to stop climate change
About the "end of globalization" I would suggest you to read the famous and very informative book "The end of growth" by Jeff Rubin. Published in 2012, it still is very relevant today.
@@vonschenck6464 Climate change is not at all the biggest threat to environment. Poverty actually is. The doomsday climate alarmist could really just be ignored. "Dump all your money here instead of there, because we actually want to keep people in poverty in order to retain our position of power" is the message from climate alarmists. Checkout the book from this environmentalist, "Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All."
The climate change hysteria parallels covid hysteria, "We must have a vaccine in order to go back to normal." There is always some sort of hysterical binary, and that is my cue to completely ignore it, because then I know it's fake (there is almost never "only one saving" option for anything LoL) Just people pushing their financial agenda and looking for your support and to capitalize on you being afraid. No thanks, I'll be helping the poor rather than worry about cow farts.
@@sarahmw8611 Anyone who opens with the phrase "alarmists" can be ignored with far greater confidence.
A business which profits from threatening the safe operating space of humanity should not be supported, it is rather the opposite. The flight industry has not worked on solutions on the climate crises, because they used the lack of international regulations to allow carosine to be nearly tax free. This is now an opportunity to create incentives for air travel to apply to the paris agreement in order to earn government aid. This will not help the issue of inequalities created through the lack of tourism, but at least may mitigate climate change (which is also an inequality)
Downsides of the collapse of the travel industry: lost jobs, bankruptcies. Upsides: Less stress on the environment between fewer carbon emissions, less people crowding into paradise destinations like Phuket. Less brain drain. Now stand out students with graduate degrees in Pakistan or Nigeria will be forced to stay home and contribute to development in those countries versus just moving to the USA or Europe for better pay. This comment could get quite long. Much more to list on the silver lining side of the ledger.
I take it you are well off £££
Less pollution.
I just saw the notification of new video of You, and quickly opened it to watch. Love your content
There are still plans going ahead to develop more high-speed trains in Europe. Why are they just focusing on air travel and the economic divide there? Many new jobs will be created and imagine if the Americas and Africa also had high speed trains.
This video is pure speculation meaning, it may or may never happen. I remain hopeful that it will eventually come back because that's what people want...to travel...and they will.
I work for a leisure boat company in the US and we all thought no one will rent boats for leisure, but since coronavirus the opposite has been true, our demand skyrocketed and we saw numbers we never saw before in boat rental numbers. Tourism will pick up extremely fast mark my words
no better place to stay healthy than to be packed into a tin can with some other humans for some hours.
Demand will gradually return but the aviation industry will already have changed by then. Journalists tend to exaggerate in order to sell their stories, so this video speculates about more extreme scenarios than what will probably occur. For example, the idea that commercial aviation will return to how it was 50+ years ago is absurd. However, we should expect significant disruptive changes for the next few years, as was the case after 911.
Hope leads to disappointment. What people want is irrelevant. The point is that mass travel from before is inherently unsustainable and cannot possibly return without causing significant damage to the environment and spreading pathogens around for vulnurable people to catch and die from.
TRAVEL WILL BE THE SAME ...IT IS ONLY A QUESTION OF TIME !
So glad I travelled 2-3 times a year over the last 10+ years 😍
For me who travel locally before pandemic.
hate it when local tourist spot become more crowded
How do you make the graph animations? Which software?
adobe after effects properly :)
@@MichelleCheungg Thanks for the response. Any plugin? - I thought it needed to be programmed in Python or else.
Too pessimistic. Less travel doesn't mean less globalised and more divisions. The Internet has made it possible for all of us, coming from different places, to connect in ways the 20th century couldn't have imagined. I think that analysis needs some revision.
I am from Northern Italy (Aosta Valley) and I see a lot of cars from GB, more than the other years... and a lot of motors.
Yep, everybody's driving. We took our van recently to Frankfurt, Vienna and Burgenland in Austria as well as to Ticino in Switzerland.
Governments shouldn't be subsidizing airline companies to make flying more affordable. If the conversation is about equity, they should be designing ways in which those less fortunate could apply for funding directly. There is no need for the airline to be part of such a policy.
Seeing the world doesn't mean you understanding it.
One of the stupidest comments I have read. NOT seing the world means you do not understand it.
I haven't flown in over 14 years, so this hasn't been a big issue for me.
Same
Those little planes flying around certainly reminds me of plague inc
this is real life plague inc
What do you think it was based on?
Airline personnel will lose their jobs regardless of bailouts, because money is going towards airline surveillance technology that no one actually needs, rather than going to help people who need jobs. We are being forced to pay for our own surveillance.
I have been itching to travel. But then I think it's my responsibility as an American, and a world citizen, not to risk spreading COVID and am still "re-discovering" my local area for the 5th time.
Very insightful. Excellent analysis.
Covid should mean change. Not try and get back to the same mistakes.
what change? you gotta learn to add more information
Tony, how shall I put this. Only the greatest zealots are willing to live like medieval peasants (i.e. never leaving their hometown in their life) to help the environment.
I don’t think that traveling abroad should be illegal or risky this summer
It will come back,humans have short memories
Is t there any way I can find the audio script of this video? I'd be wonderful lesson plan material. Thanks
Government bailouts to airlines is imoral considering the huge pollution both carbon and noise that airlines and airports are inflicting in the environment and people without facing any limitations and penalties unkike other highly polluting industries. Major DOWNSIZE and even airline closures is absolutely needed if we are to bend the curve of climate change in time of avoiding major catastrophe.
the only ones who have stopped traveling are ordinary citizens. the mega rich have all the best spots around the world for themselves to enjoy.
Mid-class people unite brother Erik 🤘
I just want to hear the positive impact for the environment. That's it.
there may be none as more people will drive now for holidays polluting more . There could be more EVs to but its not a simple as less flights better for environment
This is mostly about the current situation, and very little about how it "will never be the same".
Don't worry America will always take more tax dollar and venmo them to corporations
The thought that international travel may not return to pre pandemic levels for years if ever is a very depressing thought 😭 Fingers crossed you're wrong. 🤞
So many pointless points...
To fly cheap is a fundamental misconcept!
cheap in the short term but very expensive in the long term
NO, IT WON'T BE.......ALL COVID-BELIEVING LUNATICS WILL TRAVEL ONLY TO MENTAL ASYLUM WITH 'ONE WAY' TICKETS; AND A SMALL PERCENTAGE OF US WILL LEAD NORMAL LIVES, AND GET NEWS UPDATES OF HOW MANY COVID-LUNATICS ENTERED WHICH MENTAL ASYLUMS, AND STAYED THERE FOREVER.