Travel is Back!

Dear Friends and Travelers, 

I am thrilled to share that ’travel is back’! 

I just returned from a 3-week journey where I spent time in New York, Connecticut, Iceland, and France. My most recent journeys were made up of trips with friends, trips with family, and a work trip where I attended a travel conference with experts from all over the world. Packing for so many different experiences may have proved challenging, but the energy of each place and the warm welcomes I received in each destination quickly took center stage.  

While travel is not the same as it was pre-pandemic, travelers are not letting this slow them down. Dinner reservations in Paris? A nightmare. Hotel rooms in Iceland? Crazy high prices. New York: Broadway is back! Connecticut to visit our kids: almost impossible to secure a decent rental car. Despite the challenges that COVID-19 is proving to the hospitality industry, it seems to me that travelers are adjusting. There really isn’t an alternative.  

While many of you are still calling us to help with a last-minute getaway, more and more of you are planning for 2022 and beyond, no longer reticent to make plans due to the fear of the unknown. I believe that travel is paramount to happiness just as breath is to life.

#TravelToLive

Shawna Huffman Owen