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Published April 09. 2021 1:10PM | Updated April 09. 2021 1:34PM
Natalie B. Compton, The Washington post
After a year of bad news, travelers finally have something to look forward to again. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently gave the green light that fully vaccinated people can travel again.
The long-awaited guidance is welcome news for travelers who want to visit family and take vacations for the first time in more than a year. But even though nearly 100 million Americans have had at least one dose of coronavirus vaccine, we are not out of the woods yet.
Officials are still not recommending travel for everyone due to the rising number of cases in the United States and globally.
(Jay L. Clendenin/Los Angeles Times; photo illustration by Jade Cuevas/Los Angeles Times)
Times travel writer Christopher Reynolds reports that
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Among new additions to the city are the 1,504-room Virgin Hotels Las Vegas and Meow Wolf’s “Omega Mart” multimedia installation.
Reynolds recently visited Las Vegas to see what travelers are experiencing. Though the majority of visitors seemed to follow Nevada’s laws that require face coverings in public, commitment to social distancing was “more hit or miss.”
Deciding to visit the city was “kind of hard, kind of easy,” one visitor told Reynolds. “Because you don’t know how people are going to be. I didn’t think a lot of people would be here. But they are.”
What are living lists and why is it becoming a hot travel trend?
By The Washington Post
By Natalie B. Compton
Washington - Over the course of an unforgiving year, the pandemic drilled home the idea that we should not take anything for granted. As we wallowed at home watching the coronavirus cancel everything, we realised that travel opportunities can disappear at any moment, and we cannot put off trips for someday anymore.
I have seen this sentiment while talking with travel writers, photographers and guides, and travel advisers are seeing it from their clients. Back in February, Elizabeth Blount McCormick, the president of international travel management company Uniglobe Travel Designers, summed it up best when she introduced the concept of living lists to me.
Over the course of an unforgiving year, the pandemic has drilled home the idea that we should not take anything for granted.
As we wallowed at home watching the coronavirus cancel everything, we realised that travel opportunities can disappear at any moment, and we cannot put off trips for someday anymore.
I have seen this sentiment while talking with travel writers, photographers and guides, and travel advisers are seeing it from their clients.
Back in February, Elizabeth Blount McCormick, the president of international travel management company Uniglobe Travel Designers, summed it up best when she introduced the concept of living lists to me.