What to Consider if You’re Ready to Travel This Summer
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🗓️ 4 June 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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| 0:51.6 | Thank you. vary. From KQED. Travel deprived Americans are snapping up airline tickets and hotel reservations, |
| 0:55.0 | heralding a summer 2021 vacation boom. Photos from destinations ranging from campgrounds to Caribbean islands are popping up in social media feeds. |
| 1:00.0 | But how safe is travel? And what do vacationers need to consider as the economy reopens? |
| 1:05.0 | Many Americans are opting for domestic travel, leading to car rentals and hotels already selling out in popular |
| 1:11.5 | cities. We discuss where people are heading this summer and what's changed as a result of the |
| 1:16.1 | coronavirus pandemic. That's next on Forum after this news. Let's face it, summer 2020 was a bust. But with vaccines available to Americans 12 and up and COVID-19 rates plummeting in |
| 1:45.9 | most parts of the country, it's looking increasingly likely that this summer will be very |
| 1:50.0 | different. By one estimate, some two-thirds of Americans are planning to travel over the coming |
| 1:54.7 | months. But the world has changed, masks, vaccine passports, PCR tests, unruly passengers. We didn't even know these terms |
| 2:02.8 | a couple years ago. This hour, we're going to talk about travel with a panel of experts, |
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