conduct informal research using a sample of 5-6 of your friends or colleagues focused on how COVID-19 has impacted their travel and/or other hospitality plans, discuss your results, and evaluate if they are consistent with the outlook for the industry. Please focus on how their attitudes may have recently changed due to new guidelines, the vaccine rollout, etc. Overall, are they wholly optimistic, cautiously optimistic, or somewhat cautious?
Develop your own brief survey of 5 questions that you will ask and provide the questions in the discussion post.
Some things to consider might include:
How likely are you to plan travel or a vacation for the coming months? Has new guidlelines and the vaccine roll out influenced your decisions?
What is your level of comfort in terms of personal safety in planning a trip given the current conditions?
What sort of re-booking or financial guarantee would be needed for you to plan a trip given the current conditions?
To what extent do you think your personal outlook on travel will be changed in the long term, as a result of the pandemic?
- Discuss your results
