As the coronavirus pandemic has upended air and car travel, the winners so far are: short-term vacation rentals such as Airbnb and some rural communities.
WASHINGTON — The summer of 2020 turns out to be the summer of COVID-19 and as vacation time begins in earnest that is likely to have some serious economic and health impacts on the tourism industry.
The association forecasted that total spending would be down some 40 percent in 2020 as compared to 2019. And that drop wasn’t just because of less travel; the average spending per trip was forecasted to be down as well, by almost 15 percent. Business travel looks set to drop by more than one-third, but leisure travel is not far behind in the figures, with a decrease of close to 30 percent in the forecast.
Story continuesOne analysis has predicted that Disney's global theme park attendance will decline by a total of 148 million visitors in fiscal years 2020 and 2021. New bookings at the properties took a dip as the coronavirus became big news in March, bottoming out at about 243,000 new bookings the week of April 6–12. But the numbers have risen fairly steadily since then, rising to more than 900,000 per week in mid-June.
Garrett County, Maryland, is at the end of that state’s panhandle, fairly close to both Pittsburgh and Washington, and is home to Deep Creek Lake boating and fishing. McCurtain, Oklahoma, is rural and remote with a fish and game reserve and a location between Dallas, Oklahoma City, Little Rock, Arkansas and Shreveport, Louisiana.
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