Stop Dreaming of a Pre-Pandemic Travel Industry: Key Takeaways From Skift’s Design The Future
Photo Credit: While the pandemic will spark many lasting design legacies, community spaces like the hotel bar will still be important post-crisis, according to experts at Skift Design the Future. Wikimedia / Ruozhu Tang
Skift Take
Don't look to the past in how to rebuild the travel industry's post-pandemic future. Look at everything from design to diversity to structuring events.
A pandemic is a terrible thing to waste when it comes to ushering in new business strategy, according to leading voices across the travel and design sphere.
Pent-up travel demand continues to grow with each passing month of the pandemic. But while optimistic news on the vaccine front could accelerate the travel industry’s recovery, industry experts say we shouldn’t be so quick to bounce back to the way things were.
Now is the time to rebuild a travel economy that takes into account the wellness, health, and technology principles debated for years but largely ignored until a global health crisis kept everyone at home. From design to diversity and event structures, travel leaders weighed in Thursday at Skift Design the Future event.
The full video of the three-hour event is embedded below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFBqgSMbEKk&feature=emb_logo
Here are some of the key takeaways:
Diversity means harnessing t
