The beach is open - a podcast by WHRO Public Media

Now that the beach is open for business, will tourism immediately return? The answer is probably a qualified yes. Global tourism and travel will gradually open up with tourism accelerating toward normalcy at a much faster rate than business travel. Business travel, a part of our hospitality sector that gets less attention in the press, is really important to us locally. Hotels in Norfolk, for example, are more reliant on business travel than those at the beach. But businesses will be slow to allow employees to travel, primarily for cost reasons, and will rely more on web-based meetings whereas there will be pent-up demand among tourists for vacations and seeing sites and places that can be easily reached by car, like the beach and the historic triangle, will be among the first to benefit. To learn more, visit odu.edu/business. This Strome Business Minute is presented by the Strome College of Business at Old Dominion University.

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