Cat Jones
Byway Travel
Podcast 043 with special guest Cat Jones – Byway Travel – no-fly holidays
Intro Cat Jones – background of Byway – no-fly holidays and why launching in the middle of the pandemic is perfect timing
- Refunds – being an ethical business
- Bookings for 2021 and the impact of the pandemic
- Slow travel holidays – an example
New sleeper trains are coming to Europe
- It is about joyful journeys
- CO2 per passenger mile
- Bounce-back of nature
Articles
- what’s next for the travel industry
- working away from home
- Staycations and confidence in travel
Endnote
ARTICLES DISCUSSED
We can use the pause in global jet-setting brought on by COVID-19 to rethink and reset our habits as tourists, moving toward travel that is thoughtful, intentional and, most importantly, infrequent.
Regardless of what our crystal ball reveals for foreign trips, one travel trend is currently clear. Staycations are here to stay. After our love-affair with Irish tourism in 2020, fresh figures from Fáilte Ireland have revealed that 70% of us intend to take a short break within Ireland over the next 12 months. That figure rises to 76% when it comes to Irish families with children under sixteen.
