South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Sunday)
Survey: Millennials most likely to travel in 2021
According to a new survey by HealthCareInsider.com, which focused on Americans’ perceptions of the pandemic’s end, millennials are 50% more likely than Gen Xers and
15% more likely than baby boomers to feel comfortable traveling by at least fall
2021.
When participants of varying ages were asked to choose out of 10 specific activities they most look forward to resuming, “not having to wear a mask” topped the list with 26% of the overall vote, followed by family gatherings at 18% and travel at 17%.
Millennials (ages 18-34) were the most likely generation (with 19% of the vote) to cite travel as the activity they’re most eager to resume, just behind being able to ditch face masks (20%).
Generation X respondents (ages 35-54) tied in terms of their eagerness to resume travel (17%) and family gatherings (17%), after not having to wear a mask in public (25%).
Meanwhile, baby boomers (ages 55 and older) said they’re most looking forward to family gatherings (20%) after the ability to stop wearing masks in public (31%). The ability to travel trailed with just 16% of boomers’ vote.
Respondents were also asked to select a season by which they believe they’ll feel comfortable traveling again.
Once again, millennials emerged as the generation that’s most eager to get back to traveling as soon as possible.
Millennials were shown to be 13% more likely than Gen Xers and 80% more likely than baby boomers to feel comfortable traveling by this spring. And millennials were 50% more likely than Gen Xers to feel comfortable traveling by this autumn.
In the 1980s, Art Bell developed the idea for a
24-hour cable comedy network, which would eventually become Comedy Central.
In his memoir, “Constant Comedy: How I Started Comedy Central and Lost My Sense of Humor” (Ulysses Press,
$24.95), Bell writes about his beginning at the network, where he met a young Jon Stewart, and his eventual dismissal from the company he founded.
Little Cayman Island Bell, who resides in Greenwich, Connecticut, is currently working on “The Origins of Comedy Central” podcast, which is scheduled to premiere in April.
Q: What is your favorite vacation destination?
A: I took up scuba diving a couple of years ago. My wife and I spent a week at a dive resort on Little Cayman island. Fabulous. I hope to find more diving spots like that all over the world.
Q: To someone who was going to Little Cayman, what would you recommend that they do during their visit?
A: Scuba dive. Of course, if they don’t dive, there’s not much else to do, so don’t go, in which case I will suggest a trip to Australia. We spent three weeks in Australia five years ago and it is not to be missed. See the Great Barrier Reef — you can dive, snorkel or just look over the side of the boat, I guess. Don’t miss the Sydney Opera House. It’s astonishing. I couldn’t take my
eyes off it. And we stayed at Saffire Freycinet in Freycinet National Park. That was the single best lodging experience in my life.
Q: What trips did you have to cancel because of this pandemic?
A: We were supposed to go to Wakatobi in Indonesia, but the pandemic hit so we have postponed that trip.
Q: What untapped destination should people know about?
A: Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska. It’s not necessarily untapped, but it is out of the way, and we chose to stay inside the park at a very small hotel. Because cars weren’t allowed in the park, we had to take a four-hour bus ride to get there. We hiked every day, avoided a confrontation with a grizzly bear, thanks to our quick-thinking guide, and met some remarkable people at the hotel. The view of Denali mountain was spectacular.
Q: What’s the most important thing you’ve learned from your travels?
A: People around the world are for the most part kind, proud of where they live and eager to show us their home and all the wonderful things about it.
Q: What are your five favorite cities?
A: In no particular order: New York, Washington, D.C., Rome, Stockholm, Tokyo.
Q: Where would you like to go that you have never been to before?
A: Antarctica, Normandy, Barcelona, New Zealand, Galapagos Islands, Greece.
Q: When you go away, what are some of your must-have items?
A: Binoculars, a bathing suit and my Kindle. I also always travel with my MacBook Air so I can look things up and learn about the history of wherever we are.