18 Ways the Pandemic Changed Travel

The coronavirus lockdown of 2020 “brought the global travel industry to a complete standstill,” battering a $9 trillion industry in ways few could have imagined, and it’s unlikely it will ever be the same, says Bruce Poon Tip in his recently published “Unlearn: The Year the Earth Stood Still.” But the pandemic also created a rare opportunity to reshape global travel and an industry that, long before the pandemic came along, had been grappling with immense challenges tied to overtourism, plastic waste pollution, climate change, and more. Interviews with some of the industry’s leading voices show what’s happened and what the future may hold.