In a world of COVID-19 travel bans, border closures and lockdowns it is hard to imagine a return to free movement between countries and recovery for the vast world of travel and vacation websites. When the Singapore-based online booking portal Agoda slashed 1,500 jobs in Asia in May, cutting its workforce by 25%, nobody was surprised.
Beyond big business, though, the pandemic has also changed something I would not have thought possible in an interconnected world: the future of social hospitality travel platforms like Couchsurfing.
