Globalization, Souvenir T-Shirts and the Future of Travel*
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 05.01.08 | 3:03 PM ET
Sophia Dembling asks three questions to kick off an intriguing blog post: “Now that the price of flying is skyrocketing, will the world start getting larger again? Will travel become less egalitarian than it has become in recent decades, as fewer people can afford to do it? And would that be, necessarily, a bad thing?” Dembling recently wrote Traveling While Texan for World Hum.
Update: May 2, 11:09 a.m. ET: A USA Today story outlines how “[r]ecord-high oil prices are threatening to ground millions of travelers who have grown accustomed to flying for fun and business during the past 30 years.”
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
Ling 05.03.08 | 2:45 AM ET
At least for business travelers, I think you’ll see the world become more globalized, and not less, as the cost of travel goes up, because business travelers will turn to the internet and video conferencing for meetings, instead of in person discussions. Cisco already has a program called ‘Telepresence’ to promote this kind of thing.