How Traveling Has Evolved With Digital Help
Photo By DunneJ - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.orgThe New York Times recently published an article outlining how travel has evolved to include more digital experiences during COVID times. As the article states:
“Guided excursions have long been at the heart of travel, but like everything else, the pandemic disrupted such experiences, and many went virtual. But as travel begins to tick up, existing tour companies are adapting to social distancing in other ways.
Some are complementing virtual experiences — for instance, guided chocolate tastings with chocolate shipped before the tour — and tailoring closer-to-home actual adventures, like kayaking and hiking. Others are making groups smaller or private and moving outdoors.
This fall, a new player, Amazon, took a deep dive into the strictly virtual model with the start of its Amazon Explore platform, which offers everything from online shopping tours in Peru to tango lessons from Argentina.”
It’s a good article that explains what’s available for those seeking adventure and travel when you can’t actually travel (or ways to improve your actual traveling experience!
Be sure to read the full article at www.nytimes.com/2020/11/12/travel/travel-tours-experiences-virus.
-Laura Flippin | Wheels Up
