Data suggests there may be one winner in the summer of COVID-19: short-term summer rental properties, including houses and cottages available through platforms such as Airbnb and VRBO.
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.
One 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. The figures suggest people, faced with the realities of COVID and of limited hotel capacity, are finding other ways to get away.
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