Road journeys and localized travel will be travelers’ focus for now, and properties have to rethink how they serve this market. Red Roof Inn, for instance, is capitalizing on its budget-friendly lodging that largely have exterior corridors to target road trippers. Airbnb’s strength has at all times been with city locations where vacationers were seeking to join with locals for insider tips about where to go and what to do. However,COVID-19 has made cities much less enticing, and Airbnb made suburban and rural trip rentals its marquee offering.

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