Holidays in pandemic more expensive than a year ago

According to the analysis carried out by the German Tourism Office (DZT), the willingness to travel abroad in 2021 is declared by much more people than in 2020. Although the pandemic has affected the way of traveling, the moods of the respondents are much more optimistic. Representatives of the so-called generation X, i.e. people aged 40+.

Due to Covid-19, we have changed both the way we plan our trips and the directions of our trips. Research conducted by TNS Qatar at the request of the Polish Bank Association shows that after a year of the pandemic, as many as 19 percent of Poles will not go on vacation, 63 percent have planned their holidays in the country, and 14 percent decided to go abroad. This is a decrease compared to, for example, 2019, when approx. 23 percent declared the will to go on holiday abroad. respondents. The biggest difference is that we plan a vacation in our home country more often.

Given the uncertainty of the situation, many travel agencies are introducing a flexible offer that allows customers to transfer their booking to another date or use the money paid for another trip in case something goes wrong. However, when planning a vacation on your own, you need to take into account several factors, including reduced availability of some hotels or the deactivation of certain services (e.g. spa area). Before leaving, you should monitor the pandemic situation at the destination and properly adapt to the applicable sanitary rules or restrictions.

However, it is worth remembering about cashback, currency conversions, and commissions. Special applications can also be used. In the event of canceled trips or last-minute hotel changes, the ZEN.COM app includes ZEN Care as a package for its customers. The offer assumes that if an item (for which a ZEN Mastercard multi-currency card was paid) is found to be not as described, the customer receives immediate assistance and support in the process of recovering the refund. In addition, the explanation of the complaint with the seller is then the responsibility of the company's employees, which takes over the formalities.

(WBJ)