Article written by Dan Richards, CEO of Global Rescue. He serves on the U.S. Travel and Tourism Advisory Board at the U.S. Department of Commerce and is a Global Member of the World Travel and Tourism Council.
Perhaps you’re planning a late summer getaway to wine country. Maybe your loved ones are heading off to college for a study abroad program. Or possibly your boss decided it’s time to restart domestic, even international, business travel again. No matter what the reason, people have been traveling at steadily increasing volumes during the late spring and summer, based on TSA’s airport screening data. But the Delta variant may be changing that trend.
The Delta variant of coronavirus is making news headlines, and, unfortunately, some of the reporting is uneven and unnecessarily contributing to traveler confusion about whether they should take trips and, if they do, how to minimize risk and travel safely.
The Delta variant is twice as contagious as previous strains of the…