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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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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 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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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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YoY Comparison of Top-Selling Amazon Products Tells the Tale of Two Unprecedented Years

Retail TouchPoints

Compared to this same time last year, consumers are entertaining more, traveling more and dressing up — although they are not forgoing the sweatpants altogether. It’s a stark shift from 2020, when puzzles, gardening tools, cookware, headphones and exercise bikes topped shoppers’ lists.

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Don’t Panic, Most Sites Are Seeing Traffic Drops

Kissmetrics

Their stock went from $404 at the start of 2020 to currently sitting above $1500. Travel is up, but…. Travel and leisure websites are getting much more traffic. But not travel and leisure. Here’s what traffic looks like when we compare July 2021 to July 2020. That’s massive growth. Now, most industries are not up.

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