[Editors Note: We came across this study which surveyed 1045 U.S. travelers (55%+ were millennials) about their behaviors and attitude towards travel amid COVID-19. Some of the results were surprising, yet encouraging, and we thought others would be interested to see the results as well. Heres a snapshot of some of the more surprising results:

Related to this, we also wrote an article titled Business Travel After COVID-19 which covered 5 things to take into consideration for employers, business travelers, and the travel industry. Enjoy.]

As of May 26, 2020, the total number of coronavirus casesreached over 5.5 million worldwide, with the U.S. being the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, representing 1.7 million of the total number of COVID-19 cases.

Since it first emerged in Wuhan, China last December 2019, countriesimplemented total partial or complete lockdownand travel restrictions which madea huge dent in the travel industry. The damage is so huge that it was estimated by the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) that there will beover 100 million job lossesin the travel and tourism sector.

Moreover, the2020 tourism industry revenueisrestatedto 447 million U.S. dollars, down from theoriginal 2020 forecast, which is711 million U.S. dollars. In 2019, the travel tourism industry revenue earned 685 million U.S. dollars in revenue.

Its been over 5 months now, so how are the US travelers holding up? We conducted a survey involving 1,045 US frequent travelers to see the impact COVID-19 has on travel habits.

We specifically asked our survey participants to indicate their age so we can see which generation travelers belong to.

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Since the coronavirus outbreak, the thought of traveling seems impossible to happen anytime soon. But earlier in May 2020, Australia announced a three-stage plan to reopen its economy, including tourism, which could be atravel recovery modelfor other countries.

Are people willing to follow strict protocols/protection while traveling amid the COVID-19 outbreak these days?

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By the end of March 2020, over3million unemployment claims were filed. This means the budget will have to be cut deeply to stillbe able to travel and keep up with the essentials amid the global pandemic.

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According tothe World Economic Forum, We will travel again, but it will not be the same. So we asked our participants which type of travel platform would they prefer after the COVID-19 pandemic.

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To ensure that the above-mentioned data is only from frequent travelers in the U.S., we launched a survey on MTurk and set the qualifications to only U.S. citizens that travel frequently.

We also included attention-check questions somewhere in the survey to ensure our participants are not just answering the survey questions randomly.

Also, the surveys results do not, in any form and way, reflect the opinions of our editors and writers.

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