A Summer of Opportunity

A Summer of Opportunity

June 2021
19 min read
Edward Russell and Madhu Unnikrishnan

Issue Overview

Memorial Day on May 31 symbolically kicked off summer in the U.S., when the entire country fires up their grills and gets ready to relax. And this Memorial Day looks a lot different than last year, when a devastating second wave of Covid-19 started to take hold. If you listen to airline CEOs speak, however, it appears that between grilling burgers and hot dogs, people are racing to their computers to book travel. In fact, demand to some leisure destinations is approaching — if not exceeding — 2019 levels. Will this hold through the autumn? And the big unanswered question…