COVID-19 pandemic sparked interest in outdoors activities that remains quite strong

Getting outdoors, mixing work and pleasure and cheaper trips: How Covid (partly) changed tourism in France

While the sector has been on a roller-coaster ride over the past five years, it hasn't really switched course since the pandemic. However, new types of behaviors linked to a yearning for nature, inflation and the rise of remote work have taken hold.

COVID-19 was ‘the great accelerator.’ Its impacts are still rippling out.  - Aspen Journalism

The COVID-19 pandemic was just arriving in the Roaring Fork Valley when the threat of a virulent virus became an all-encompassing crisis in the middle of March 2020. The first local case was confirmed March 8, and more were emerging. Events had already been canceled, a state of emergency declared. On March 14, 2020, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis ordered the closure of every ski area in the state to mitigate the spread of a potentially deadly infecti…

COVID-19 pandemic sparked interest in outdoors activities that remains quite strong

Harley McMillin and his son, Trevor, were lake trout fishing in northern Manitoba that fateful week in March 2020, when they started hearing rumblings about the U.S.-Canada border closing in response to increasing reports of a new coronavirus dubbed COVID-19. They decided to cut their trip short and head home a day early – just to be safe. The U.S.-Canada border closed to nonessential travel on March 21, 2020, the day McMillin and his son highta…