How the Pandemic Changed European Travel: New Skift Research


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The coronavirus has hit Europe hard, but the region will continue to receive accolades as the largest destination and largest source market for many years to come. Let's brush up on our understanding of European travelers, and see how COVID-19 has impacted their travel patterns.

Pictures of neighbors singing on their balconies and applauding health workers beamed across the world from Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom. It was April 2020, the peak of the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic. Europe was undoubtedly the hardest hit region worldwide, and currently finds itself in a second wave which in terms of new cases dwarfs the first one. The