I dont think I will be going anywhere this year,or maybe for a few years. I've only had the opportunity to travel the past few years,glad I ticked off all my bucket list countries apart from India. I'm high risk. Unfortunately I dont drive so even in the UK I rely on coach holidays which I have enjoyed. I live on the South Coast,but even if I fancied a trip to some of the loveliest beaches it would have to be via public transport to a venue jam packed with people and no public toilets☹.
A friend and I have paid a small deposit on a holiday to the Italian Dolomites at the end of September but will not be going.
I may be wrong but there seem to be a lot of people who seem to assume that post lock down will be same as pre lock down. Maybe I'm a glass half empty person!
Foreign travel appears problematical with difficulties of social distancing and isolating before and after. Further outbreaks of the pandemic could be an ongoing issue.
The cost of travel insurance will increase,especially if underlying conditions.
How long before you need an immunity pass alongside your passport?
What holiday options will even be available? How many more companies will disappear?Coach holidays are popular,especially with those groups who are now vulnerable. I find it hard to imagine a socially distanced coach trip being viable,at best it would be very expensive. Also would a socially distanced holiday be relaxing?
UK holidays offer similar issues. I live in a popular uk holiday town. The south/south west also had one of the lowest rates of the virus in the country. I'm not sure that will be the case in a few weeks☹.
I do hope I'm wrong,but certainly until a reliable vaccine is found I think certainly foreign travel may return to world of those are health wise low risk or can afford a more specialised form of travel.
Within the UK I wonder how long before regions become more territorial,where health is a priority?
Maybe I'm a pessimist,I hope so. Maybe this virus will disappear as quickly as it arrived. I've always suspected however that we we are on the first steps to a very new destination.