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Post-Pandemic Travel: Consumers Seek Variety And Adventure Within Safe Circles

Forrester eCommerce

Our data over the course of 2020 revealed the internal consumer tension between desire and fear. On the other, closed borders, stay-at-home mandates, and pervasive consumer fears brought the travel industry to a grinding halt. On the one hand, consumers expressed an ongoing appetite for adventure and variety of experience.

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Dior Taps into the Thirst for ‘Revenge Travel’

Retail TouchPoints

Call it what you want — revenge travel, comeback trip, rebound vacay — but the surge in post-COVID travel is more than just a buzzword making the rounds of the internet. Travel resurgence has already begun, and it has tangible implications reaching far beyond the hospitality industry. The travel floodgates are officially open.

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How Travel Restrictions Will Impact Retail and Consumer Spending This Summer

Retail TouchPoints

Travel and dining out are at the top of people’s wish lists as they emerge from their forced hibernation. Dreaming of travel. If travel restrictions continue to be lifted, it sounds like people are in the mood to splurge. In terms of travel, many U.S. Money in pockets.

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Clothing, Home Décor and Travel Purchases Expected to Soar Over Memorial Day Weekend

Retail TouchPoints

Additionally, 37 million people are expected to travel 50 miles or more from home, an increase of 60% over 2020, according to AAA. Clothing is the top category for Memorial Weekend, and 37% of shoppers plan to look for something to wear — likely a summer wardrobe, as vaccinated people start to make summer plans.

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How to Increase Online Bookings Amidst Revenge Travel

UpSellIt

That’s the mindset of many revenge travelers as they make plans for their long-awaited next adventures. Here’s how the travel industry can make the most of this new phenomenon. What is Revenge Travel? Stifled wanderlust mixed with a cautious optimism about the prospect of traveling has led to a new mindset among travelers.

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Putting The Wraps on Our 2020 Holiday Contest

Optimizely

At the end of 2020, we invited our users to showcase campaigns they sent over the holiday season. Fox Rent-A-Car is a leading car rental company serving budget-conscious travelers in the U.S. The post Putting The Wraps on Our 2020 Holiday Contest appeared first on Zaius. Our users’ submissions did not disappoint.

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Should we even care about eCommerce trends for 2021 after a mad 2020?

Omniconvert

If you met a time traveler in January 2020 and they would have told you that eCommerce penetration would look. The post Should we even care about eCommerce trends for 2021 after a mad 2020? appeared first on Omniconvert Ecommerce Growth Blog.

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