How Working From Home Will Permanently Change the Way We Travel
Some say it’s the most transformative thing to happen to the travel industry since commercial flights took off. Here’s why.
View from a private plunge pool at the Park Hyatt St. Kitts.
Photographer: Evan Ortiz
It was the first glimmer of hope for the beleaguered travel industry in 2020 when locked-down citizens started doing something new amid the pandemic: not working from home, but working from anywhere. Off they’d go for weeks or months at a time, to any locale with good surf and better Wi-Fi, to show off a new Zoom background after early morning swims.
Today the era of decamping from your hometown might seem as far in the rearview mirror as a five-day, in-person workweek might appear on the horizon. But a new version of the trend is emerging—and it could prove a serious boon for the travel industry.