The Long View Guest This Week: Online Travel Vet Adam Goldstein on Travel Anxieties Ahead

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What travel industry and traveler anxieties will we be coping with and having to adjust around? This week's episode of The Long View will focus on that question, and others.

For the third episode of The Long View, my weekly livestream Q&A show on figuring out the path ahead for travel in coming months and years, I am excited to welcome former Hipmunk CEO and co-founder and an all-around travel vet Adam Goldstein

Adam, an MIT engineer with deep travel insider knowledge has a keen eye for what travelers are likely to see when they start traveling again, and how travelers can mitigate their travel anxieties and paranoia once things are back to a new normal. This build on the theme of Permanxiety in travel that Skift has talked about for a few years now.

Adam’s recent essays — The Anxiety Algorithm and The Paranoia Parameter, help enlighten us as to why we get so anxious and paranoid and how we can mitigate our mind’s overwhelming response so that we can maintain our sanity and thrive in these difficult times, a very relevant mirror into traveler anxieties.

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The Long View Guest This Week: Online Travel Vet Adam Goldstein on Travel Anxieties Ahead

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The Long View Guest This Week: Online Travel Vet Adam Goldstein on Travel Anxieties Ahead

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Up Next

How Data Quality Issues Impact Global Hospitality Operations

How Ananda Went From a Foreigners’ Wellness Retreat to a 50% Indian Clientele

Expedia Is Open to AI Partnerships and M&A

What Drove China’s Lunar New Year Tourism

We Now Know What Hilton Paid for NoMad Hotels: Just $56 Million

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