Abstract
Tourism has been recognized as a delight for attraction, accommodation, culture, recreation, and more. The tourism industry has become a major source of revenue for many businesses and for nations as a whole as part of the service sector. The unusual outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic is the sole disruptive circumstance for the last several months. Due to the unprecedented situation, there is a chance for new travel trends to emerge in the nation. This chapter describes the emerging new normal tourism and travel trends like a staycation, wellness and spa tourism, virtual tourism, sustainable travel, eco-tourism, vaccine tourism, and also aims at finding tourist preferences of destinations from the new travel trends post pandemic. Travellers today would like to visit destinations consisting of nature protected regions, which are termed sustainable travel, to satisfy their ecotravel, money value, private space, social distance, security, accessibility, and cleanliness needs.
TopBackground
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an emergency that has almost brought the globe to a halt, with industries that help the economy to thrive, and tourism is one of the world's most impacted industries. Governments worldwide have also put rigorous travelling restrictions and social limitations in place to combat disease transmission. In some major countries such as China and Russia, domestic tourism is still increasing and domestic demand for air travel has mainly reverted to pre-COVID levels. Asian and Pacific respondents were most enthusiastic about domestic tourism's contribution to the rehabilitation of locations, reports (UNWTO, 2020). In destinations, hygiene and health conditions might be key determinants for visitors' travel selections. In this challenging scenario that provides the tourism sector with a chance to improve, sustainable segments (rural, natural, and health) need to be given importance. The first objective of the study is to discuss emerging new travel trends due to travel restrictions. The second is to identify the tourist's preferences among the new travel trends post-pandemic.