Travel's Reopening and Coronavirus Recovery

China is dusting itself off from a major winter stumble in its road to a complete pandemic hotel recovery. While the year ahead looks good, forecasts by hotel executives of a complete rebound by December seem unlikely.

Hotels and airlines, rejoice: a larger remote workforce in the future will likely usher in an entirely new type of corporate travel.

It's not just about the remote work potential for businesses — it's also about spending more on "company culture" by investing in in-person staff meetings and events, and focusing on establishing relationships. That's why the future of the hybrid hospitality model appears to be bright.

The U.S., thanks to accelerated vaccine distribution, appears on track to contain the spread of coronavirus at some point this year. Now comes the lobbying effort to find ways to get more people back into hotels, airplanes, and restaurants.

Things change fast in a pandemic. Canada ranked first in tight Covid restrictions, then it trailed the U.S. in vaccinations. Now it's playing catch up, while asking Canadians to help by spending the bulk of their vacation savings at home this summer, and not next door. Will they listen?

U.S. airlines are bullish on the coronavirus recovery — finally. After a year of losses, some say the long-elusive inflection in bookings occurred in February with all eyes turned to summer when many expect large numbers of vacationers to return to the skies.

David Marriott's election to his family's namesake hotel company's board of directors lays the foundation for a Marriott family member to continue to hold the chairman position for years to come.

The timeshare sector continues to see a significant level of acquisitions fit into the branded-is-better argument. Other types of hotel deals are still a ways off, if at all, due to uncertainty in the recovery.

Plenty of money is out there to buy up hotel assets during the pandemic, but various rounds of stimulus and bank forgiveness may prevent the wave of deals Dreamscape and other investors hope to find.

Throughout the pandemic, people started to realize that we’ve loved our planet nearly to death — quite literally. Will we be able to heal our relationship with Mother Nature as the industry attempts to redefine sustainable travel?