Omicron Unraveling Travel Industry (Again)

Above, the Albuquerque Sunport looking like a ghost town in August 2020. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Well, here we go again, or, in this case, NOT going again. Some of us will go anyway.

The travel industry has been hard hit over the past two years since the pandemic started. Now that the omicron variant has arrived, things are going back to square one a bit. 

Viruses has a tendency to mutate over time. So far, there's been two mutations: delta and omicron. There may be more out there that we don't know of or more will eventually pop up.

This is causing some "unraveling" of the plans of the travel industry to make a comeback.

According to the Citrus County Chronicle:

Tourism businesses that were just finding their footing after nearly two years of devastation wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic are being rattled again as countries throw up new barriers to travel in an effort to contain the omicron variant.

From shopping districts in Japan and tour guides in the Holy Land to ski resorts in the Alps and airlines the world over, a familiar dread is rising about the renewed restrictions.

Meanwhile, travelers eager to get out there have been thrown back into the old routine of reading up on new requirements and postponing trips.

To read all about it, go here.