{"id":69018,"date":"2020-03-26T03:12:06","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T07:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/?p=69018"},"modified":"2020-03-27T08:43:14","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T12:43:14","slug":"travel-plans-during-coronavirus-when-will-americans-travel-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/69018\/travel-plans-during-coronavirus-when-will-americans-travel-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel Plans During Coronavirus: When will Americans Travel Again?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Are your travel plans ruined because of the Coronavirus pandemic? If you&#8217;re reading offMetro.com at this time, meaning you can&#8217;t stand COVID-19, and you can&#8217;t wait to get out there. You can&#8217;t wait to pick a location again, call up some friends, pack a light rucksack, take the bus, train or your bike, and explore!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, we&#8217;re not there yet. All experts are advising us <a href=\"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/68996\/coronavirus-travel-advice-tips-and-restrictions\/\">not to travel yet,<\/a> and it looks like most Americans are following nicely. However, aren&#8217;t you curious to know when most explorers (like us) plan to be back on the trail again and resume their travel plans?    <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-regular-font-size\">Well, <a href=\"https:\/\/upgradedpoints.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UpgradedPoints<\/a> surveyed 1,250 people around the country to find out when and if they&#8217;d resume their travel plans during the coronavirus crisis. They also checked what people were most afraid about and what would make them feel comfortable enough to travel again.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Here are a few highlights of the survey:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li> 20% said they will not travel again until 2021 <\/li><li> 20% of Americans aged 18-25 said they\u2019d be comfortable traveling as soon as April 2020 <\/li><li> The biggest concern for American travelers is contracting COVID-19 and spreading it to friends or family members. <\/li><li> Less than 1% of people are concerned about getting stuck somewhere as a result of a quarantine. <\/li><li> 51% say they will feel comfortable enough to travel again when the government or health officials give the all-clear signal. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>In-Depth Analysis of Americans&#8217; Travel Plans During Coronavirus<\/strong>  <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>As we looked deeper into the survey results \u2013 we found some really interesting findings. For example, if you analyze the data by age, 20% of the younger guys and gals, aged 18-25 are willing to travel again in April 2020, while 13% said they&#8217;d travel within the next two weeks. Only 11% said they wouldn&#8217;t travel again until 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p>Check out the details:<\/p>\n<div class=\"infogram-embed\" data-id=\"22640731-39d0-45bd-bb09-7e0a9fb525d7\" data-type=\"interactive\" data-title=\"Copy: Copy: COVID-19 Travel Survey\"><\/div><script>!function(e,i,n,s){var t=\"InfogramEmbeds\",d=e.getElementsByTagName(\"script\")[0];if(window[t]&&window[t].initialized)window[t].process&&window[t].process();else if(!e.getElementById(n)){var o=e.createElement(\"script\");o.async=1,o.id=n,o.src=\"https:\/\/e.infogram.com\/js\/dist\/embed-loader-min.js\",d.parentNode.insertBefore(o,d)}}(document,0,\"infogram-async\");<\/script><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What scares Americans\nmost about traveling during the COVID-19 pandemic?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the survey, 41% of\nAmericans said their biggest concern was to contract the coronavirus.\nThe 2<sup>nd<\/sup> biggest concern (32%) of Americans was the fear of\nthem spreading the virus among their family members or friends.  \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Almost 70% of Americans aged 65+ said\nthat contracting the virus was their biggest concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10% of Americans have no concerns at\nall about traveling at this time. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What would make you feel comfortable to travel again?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Travel-Plans-During-covid-19.jpg\" alt=\"travel plans during  covid-19\" class=\"wp-image-69020 lazyload\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"741\" height=\"486\" src=\"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Travel-Plans-During-covid-19.jpg\" alt=\"travel plans during  covid-19\" class=\"wp-image-69020 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Travel-Plans-During-covid-19.jpg 741w, https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Travel-Plans-During-covid-19-350x230.jpg 350w, https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Travel-Plans-During-covid-19-696x456.jpg 696w, https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Travel-Plans-During-covid-19-640x420.jpg 640w, https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Travel-Plans-During-covid-19-735x482.jpg 735w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 741px) 100vw, 741px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When asked about the factors that would make them feel comfortable traveling again, the majority of Americans (51%) said that an \u201call clear\u201d from the government or health officials would do it. However, almost 30% of Americans said that no new cases of Coronavirus in the destination they&#8217;re traveling to would be the most important factor.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, when asked if there was an airline ticket price low enough for them to buy for a non-business journey \u2013 36% of Americans said no matter how cheap the tickets cost \u2013 they wouldn&#8217;t travel on an airplane. Isn&#8217;t that a great green development? We at offMetro definitely support that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, almost 20% of Americans said they would buy roundtrip tickets if they&#8217;d cost between $26 yo $50. If you look into the gender and age factors, it gets interesting. 42% of women said they wouldn&#8217;t travel on an airplane, no matter the price, compared to only 32% of men who said the same. As to older Americans, almost 80% of those aged 65+ said they wouldn&#8217;t travel on an airplane at these times, regardless of price, whereas only 24% of those aged 18 to 25 said the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p>Here are the details:<\/p>\n<div class=\"infogram-embed\" data-id=\"9a3be0b2-9b6a-46d2-9099-430168311fe6\" data-type=\"interactive\" data-title=\"Copy: Copy: COVID-19 Travel Survey\"><\/div><script>!function(e,i,n,s){var t=\"InfogramEmbeds\",d=e.getElementsByTagName(\"script\")[0];if(window[t]&&window[t].initialized)window[t].process&&window[t].process();else if(!e.getElementById(n)){var o=e.createElement(\"script\");o.async=1,o.id=n,o.src=\"https:\/\/e.infogram.com\/js\/dist\/embed-loader-min.js\",d.parentNode.insertBefore(o,d)}}(document,0,\"infogram-async\");<\/script><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>UPDATE<\/strong>: A day after publishing this &#8211; we found a few more surveys on this topic. One of them, conducted by <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.luggagehero.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">LuggageHero<\/a>, suggests that 58% of Americans are planning to travel again between May and September (2020), of course &#8211; as long as the destination they are traveling to isn&#8217;t in lockdown. Other fascinating stats relevant to offMetro, are that 25% of Americans will try and avoid big cities or public transportation, and 21% will prefer domestic travel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Our Thoughts<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Coronavirus is a serious public health concern and a huge disruption to the travel industry. Americans, and probably Europeans, Asians and most people around the world, are not traveling for non-essential, non-business reasons. The survey doesn&#8217;t reveal when exactly people will start traveling again, but it does provide an interesting glimpse of what Americans are thinking as they look ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We at offMetro believe that all humans are explorers, wanderers, and travelers at heart. You cannot change that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We also believe that Americans will start to favor domestic travel over international. They&#8217;ll look for travel destinations closer to home, short (and hopefully Green) getaways from the big city, the ones we at offMetro promote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It won&#8217;t take too long until we pack our light rucksack again&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Until then, stay safe!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are your travel plans ruined because of the Coronavirus pandemic? If you&#8217;re reading offMetro.com at this time, meaning you can&#8217;t stand COVID-19, and you can&#8217;t wait to get out there. You can&#8217;t wait to pick a location again, call up some friends, pack a light rucksack, take the bus, train or your bike, and explore! 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