After a year of little to no travel, you’re probably ready to get back out and explore the world once it’s safe. But just because you’ve gotten your vaccine or coronavirus case rates are dropping doesn’t necessarily mean everything is returning to normal. In fact, the travel world is still far from it.
If you haven’t traveled in a while, you’ll almost certainly discover a “new normal.” Some of the changes are beneficial to you — like easier paths to airline and hotel status and more customer-friendly cancellation policies. You might find other changes add time to your trip planning, like mandatory reservations and testing requirements.
Regardless, major shifts are happening in the travel industry, and here are the main…