Travelers Get Candid About Their Struggles With Permanxiety
Photo Credit: Travel anxiety affects people of all backgrounds. Skift / Bing Qing Ye
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The travel industry at large speaks eagerly and often about creating positive experiences for travelers. This contrasts heavily, though, with the fears and anxieties experienced by real travelers from diverse backgrounds.
Skift launched the latest edition of our magazine, Travel in an Age of Permanxiety, at Skift Global Forum in New York City in September. This article is part of our look into the current state of the traveler mindset through the lens of the pervasive state of anxiety felt worldwide.
Absent a heart monitor, anxiety is nearly impossible to capture in a chart or graph. It’s about how we feel in relation to the world around us and the challenges that appear to be coming our way. Anxiety's impact, though, can be measured in the choices we make because we are anxious or fearful. We stay at home instead of going out. Or we don't vacation in the U.S. because of Trump or avoid Paris because of ISIS or scratch Russia off the list because of unreasonable visa requirements or skip the Caribbean because of Zika. The impact on travel is significant.
The following five stories look at travelers' permanxiety from a variety of perspectives to better understand what we think about when we visi
