Georgy Alexandrov said: “Traveling helps to understand the beauty of space and the pricelessness of time.” COVID-19 made us realize that the very opportunity to travel is priceless.
Just a few months ago, we lived in a reality where travel was as accessible as going to the cinema. Just a few months ago, the entire globe was at our service. Coronavirus has changed our reality again – and now everyone is wondering, what will travel be like after COVID-19.
We traveled easily and crossed continents. Now the life of many of us is limited by self-isolation, closed borders of Russia and other countries. It remains for us to remember our travels, looking at photographs, and dream about where we can go when the quarantine is lifted.
What if this special time was just a fantastic opportunity to rethink our attitude to travel? Right now, while we are in isolation, we have time to realize what the ideal trip will be – ideal for each of us.
Someone dreams of the clearest waters and sandy beaches, someone remembers the narrow streets and ancient stones of medieval cities, someone again sees in a dream a fantastic dawn over the waters of the Indian Ocean. Someone chooses the same hotel in which they had such a good rest last year, and someone finally decides on an exotic trip to “uninhabited” countries. The trip I've been postponing for so long. The huge open world offered us an incredible choice, but actually robbed us of a huge part of the anticipation of the holiday. The coronavirus has given us the dream of traveling again.
After when the borders open we will see that the world has changed. People, way of life, many traditions have changed – even nature has experienced a certain period of renaissance, having been cleansed of the traces of human activity accumulated over the years and decades. But not only the world will change, we ourselves will also change. Our attitude to travel will change, it will become more conscious. When you know that you can easily lose, you appreciate it doubly.Travel will be more carefully planned, they will become richer — richer excursions, adventures, events.
Event tourism will become an even more popular form of recreation. In fact, it always seemed to us that a holiday that is repeated in any country from year to year will not go anywhere. How many times have we said to ourselves: “It would be nice to see the Venice Carnival, but oh well, not this year, then in a year.” But this year there was no Venice Carnival, there was no Parade in Moscow on May 9, and only the Japanese themselves could enjoy the Japanese cherry blossoms.
In conditions of self-isolation, our lives have moved to the Internet, as the authors of science fiction books predicted. Direct human contact has become a luxury for many. Cultural events or canceled — or take place in the form of online broadcasts, behind closed doors. But watching a performance or a concert on TV is not at all the same as being in the auditorium, among people charged with the same emotions as yourself. Concerts and football matches, festivals and holidays give us not only the enjoyment of the event itself — but also the pleasure of belonging to a community of people who share our interests. And when the restrictions caused by the fight against the virus are lifted, the Vienna Opera and Arena di Verona will reopen, the traditional Ascot races will be held, and the Luzhniki stadium will receive fans.
Thirst for new experiences — one of the best qualities of a human character, and since this year she has a powerful incentive not to put off until later what you want to see right now.