The "where" part of the equation is changing along with the how: According to Vrbo's report, many families are choosing to take trips closer to home, including road trips, which is in line with what Chesky and Airbnb have observed.With the rise in remote work, there's no better time to scratch that itch to explore a new city. Sixty-seven percent of travelers would do it again, the report found. In their survey, Vrbo found that 52% of travelers who took a "flexication" (its term for a trip mixing work and pleasure) in 2020 "found the experience of blending work and family vacation time refreshing." The travel trends put forth for 2021 by Airbnb are mirrored by competitors including vacation rental platform Vrbo, which released its own January report that focuses on how "pandemic-influenced travel habits are here to stay" – that includes mixing work and travel for what Vrbo deems a "flexication." "We're going to evolve our plan and strategy as the plan evolves." 'Flexcations' and other pandemic-induced travel habits: Here to stay
"Health and safety is something we are going to continue to be focused on," Chesky said. "That private space is obviously quite good when you don't want to come in contact with people if you don't know if they have the vaccination or what they have."
"They want to get in cars, travel just a couple hundred miles, not be around people they don't know and gather in a space that feels like home," Chesky said.
Due to COVID-19, leisure travelers are less comfortable staying in crowded resorts – or visiting crowded tourist districts. COVID-19 has made vacation rentals more appealingĪirbnb, Chesky said, has become less of an alternative way to travel relative to a hotel as it has now become "the default way" many people travel, he said noting that because people are not traveling for business the way they did pre-pandemic, they are less likely to stay in a hotel.īut the trend goes beyond work-related travel. At its core, "work from home" can be substituted with "work from anywhere" – which is giving people a greater flexibility when it comes to their lifestyle, according to Chesky.
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