Is Travel a Right or a Privilege Post-Covid? The Skift Team Discusses
Photo Credit: Travel aspirations are fueling a lot of important conversations about travels recovery. Unsplash / Bing Hui Yau
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Our collective aspirations to travel are fueling a lot of important conversations about a recovery, and what travel should be about on the other side. Read the Skift team's back-and-forth on these topics around our virtual water cooler from Wednesday afternoon.
We spend a lot of time at Skift these days ruminating about the shape and scope of the travel recovery, sometimes using our own proprietary research but more often than not we share stories from our personal lives.
Those exchanges often come to life on our internal communications platform Basecamp. As a fully-distributed company now, Basecamp is our virtual water cooler.
On Wednesday, the mention of a single data point on savings rates during the pandemic unleashed some really thought-provoking exchanges that we felt were too good not to share. At its core, it is about the idea of travel as a right versus a privilege, really — a notion that our founder Rafat Ali pressed the industry on as far back as 2019, but with very little response.
https://twitter.com/rafat/status/1098629091870326790
Our banter on Wednesday echoed some of these themes.
This format is an experiment for us, telling a story in this way. Let us know what you think.
Now to our talk:
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