You probably have read that down here in Australia, the borders are closed. They have been that way for quite some time and look as if that will stay for quite some time in future. I'll try and give a personal post as why we Australians don't write letters to our Members of Parliament to complain about travel restrictions.After all, we are locked in!
My partner broke his leg just before last Christmas and it is now getting better enough to think about travel. We had some holidays booked overseas and interstate for our June-July August Winter, but that didn't happen because of covid19, the broken leg and closed borders.
The airlines cancelled the flights starting in March and continued to do that all year. So eventually we got refunded for the Europe trip and a Jetstar voucher for the interstate trip. I don't want to repeat that airline cancellation thing again as it was a real pest.
What I do notice is that the garden centre/home improvement centres here are really busy. So are the local sports facilities, playgrounds and beaches. We are told that traditional local holiday spots are booked out for school holidays.Our state goverment put out one of those voucher deals for city hotels and local tourist places. The vouchers went in the first hour.
I'm wondering if we have got out of the habit of even thinking much about international travel, and other things have occupied us instead. After all, the stories from overseas don't paint a "fun" picture of overseas travel these days. We'd need to get special permission to leave the country and getting back would be a nightmare of trying to get approval for hotel quarantine.
Local and interstate travel are quite popular now. Mostly to see family, as our intertate borders were also locked while we got the virus under control.
Perhaps the aspirational aspect of overseas leisure travel has somewhat evaporated and we have got into other habits. That's a worrying thing if it is true, as it would mean there wouldn't be a quick rebound in overseas travel if and when international borders open. Can you imagine it if that was the truth... people here just got used of enjoying their local environment and have stopped even thinking about about Paris,Rome, New York, London, Bali etc. Maybe international travel just fell off our collective radar screen.
It would be interesting to hear from others what plans they have for travel.
My partner broke his leg just before last Christmas and it is now getting better enough to think about travel. We had some holidays booked overseas and interstate for our June-July August Winter, but that didn't happen because of covid19, the broken leg and closed borders.
The airlines cancelled the flights starting in March and continued to do that all year. So eventually we got refunded for the Europe trip and a Jetstar voucher for the interstate trip. I don't want to repeat that airline cancellation thing again as it was a real pest.
What I do notice is that the garden centre/home improvement centres here are really busy. So are the local sports facilities, playgrounds and beaches. We are told that traditional local holiday spots are booked out for school holidays.Our state goverment put out one of those voucher deals for city hotels and local tourist places. The vouchers went in the first hour.
I'm wondering if we have got out of the habit of even thinking much about international travel, and other things have occupied us instead. After all, the stories from overseas don't paint a "fun" picture of overseas travel these days. We'd need to get special permission to leave the country and getting back would be a nightmare of trying to get approval for hotel quarantine.
Local and interstate travel are quite popular now. Mostly to see family, as our intertate borders were also locked while we got the virus under control.
Perhaps the aspirational aspect of overseas leisure travel has somewhat evaporated and we have got into other habits. That's a worrying thing if it is true, as it would mean there wouldn't be a quick rebound in overseas travel if and when international borders open. Can you imagine it if that was the truth... people here just got used of enjoying their local environment and have stopped even thinking about about Paris,Rome, New York, London, Bali etc. Maybe international travel just fell off our collective radar screen.
It would be interesting to hear from others what plans they have for travel.