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When mulling how to approach Skift’s annual Megatrends exercise, which traditionally looks at the upcoming year, we figured that 2021 could be another tumultuous period given uncertainties about the uneven global distribution and effectiveness of the vaccines, and the prospects of ongoing spikes and dips in coronavirus outbreaks. At the least, even under the most optimum circumstances, it would be a year of recovery and woundlicking for much of the travel industry that outlasted 2020.
We therefore decided to write our best Megatrends forecasts of what travel would look like in 2025, five years from now, when perhaps a sense of a new normalcy would have a chance to settle in.
Although we realize that given climate change variables, political strife, the chance of fresh pandemics, and economic dislocations, there’s no guarantee that 2025 will bring stability. In reflecting about the likely shape of 2025, we even speculated about deals that might happen if that particular Megatrend is solid. Given the variables, for many of our individual Megatrends within this publication, we also included a counterpoint argument, just in case our prognostications turn out a different way.
After all, each of these will be debated back and forth, and we hope you participate in that dialogue with Skift about the future of travel. So for the sake of this year’s Megatrends, imagine you are waking up and reading them in 2025.
When mulling how to approach Skift’s annual Megatrends exercise, which traditionally looks at the upcoming year, we figured that 2021 could be another tumultuous period given uncertainties about the uneven global distribution and effectiveness of the vaccines, and the prospects of ongoing spikes and dips in coronavirus outbreaks. At the least, even under the most optimum circumstances, it would be a year of recovery and woundlicking for much of the travel industry that outlasted 2020.
We therefore decided to write our best Megatrends forecasts of what travel would look like in 2025, five years from now, when perhaps a sense of a new normalcy would have a chance to settle in.
Although we realize that given climate change variables, political strife, the chance of fresh pandemics, and economic dislocations, there’s no guarantee that 2025 will bring stability. In reflecting about the likely shape of 2025, we even speculated about deals that might happen if that particular Megatrend is solid. Given the variables, for many of our individual Megatrends within this publication, we also included a counterpoint argument, just in case our prognostications turn out a different way.
After all, each of these will be debated back and forth, and we hope you participate in that dialogue with Skift about the future of travel. So for the sake of this year’s Megatrends, imagine you are waking up and reading them in 2025.
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