Rafat Ali

Though there is evidence of pent-up travel demand as U.S. reopens bit by bit, the monumental job losses for our sector will take a long time to come back to the pre-pandemic level, if ever. This is travel's Great Depression of this century, make no mistake.

The future of restaurants, standalone or as part of hospitality, will be watched intently in the coming months and years. This week's guest Marc Blazer will discuss those potential changes with me on The Long View.

Here's to the world's most consequential sector learning to walk again...

Design, it turns out, is now everything in the reopening of travel (and rest of daily life, for that matter). How does design in travel change from here? Tune in.

If domestic travel is the first to come back and stays like that for a while, which countries stand to benefit?

Does the progress in diversity efforts in the executive levels of travel companies and organizations stop as the primary motivation becomes survival? We'll dig in with Christa Quarles, former CEO of OpenTable.

This letter is a mirror to the anguish of travel founders, executives, and operators everywhere in the world today, balancing survival and business purpose.

A helpful — and hopeful — timeline for the battered travel sector. Local travel will likely lead this reopening timeline.

The future of packaged tours in a socially distanced world will be key to exploring as the travel industry recovery starts.

These are the questions whose answers one way or the other will define how travel moves on from here and what the coming future would look like. These broad lines of enquiry will define our coverage of the global travel recovery in coming months and years.