Using Technology To Help With Travel

The New York Times recently published an article titled “How to Use Tech to Prepare for Travel in a Pandemic: Even as vaccines make it safer to travel, planning a trip is becoming increasingly complicated.” As author Brian X Chen says, “… the sheer amount of preparation needed to travel during the pandemic might persuade you to stay put. Airlines, hotels and cruise lines are considering the use of so-called vaccine passports, which are essentially digital bar codes proving that you have been vaccinated against Covid-19, before allowing you to patronize their businesses…Then, in addition to the usual rigmarole — putting together an itinerary, ordering a foreign SIM card and downloading maps — you’ll have to do even more research on your destination, like looking up potential quarantine restrictions and reading about infection rates…

‘One thing you’ll have to navigate will be a fluctuating environment in terms of tests or vaccination requirements, even borders that may open and then shut again very quickly,’ said Henry Harteveldt, founder of Atmosphere Research Group, a travel analysis firm in San Francisco. ‘We’re going to have to be prepared for a very dynamic, very fluid international travel environment for the remainder of this year.’

Yet some of us will travel this year, whether it’s for work or for emergency reasons. So here’s a special pandemic edition of how to use tech to prepare for your trip.”

Brian goes on to list some helpful tools that will make traveling much easier during these more difficult times. Read his full article at www.nytimes.com/2021/04/14/technology/personaltech/traveling-technology-coronavirus-pandemic.html.

-Laura Flippin