Domestic Tourism Booming, But What’s Next?
27 Jul 2023
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It’s not hard to recall the state of the tourism market during the darkest days of the COVID-19 shutdown: few events, an evolving restaurant market, limited air travel, lack of labor, empty hotels, etc.
That was the broad view of Tourism 2020 on the heels of a 2019 that was among the strongest years in recent memory: people not only moved about the country, but the world; ample leisure time was tacked on to business trips, airline and hotel prices were more reasonable and there was an ample labor force on hand.
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