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OCTOBER 6, 2020

 Key quote from the report: International flight and travel restrictions have made it harder to travel abroad, while health and healthcare concerns have also made travel less attractive. Because of this, only 1 out of 4 (24 percent) American digital nomads said they plan to travel internationally over the next year.

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JUNE 8, 2021

Finding unique and exciting travel and cultural experiences. Another interesting article on digital nomads is Work and Wander: What Today’s Digital Nomads Signal for the Future of Travel , from Adventure Travel News.  Their ability to work from anywhere means they are also generating income while they travel.

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JULY 27, 2021

The Verge's Road-Tripping With Amazon Nomads looks at people who travel across the country looking for merchandise they can sell for a profit on Amazon. Key article quote defining Amazon Nomads: " merchants who travel the backroads of America searching clearance aisles and dying chains for goods to sell on Amazon.

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JANUARY 6, 2011

Wired's Study Suggests We've Hit 'Peak Travel" covers research that suggests demand for travel and automobile ownership in the developed world may have reached a saturation point.    The study authors looked at travel patterns for a number of countries between 1970 and 2008. 

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JUNE 29, 2021

  Their tagline is "a hotel that travels with you"   They're hoping to tap into the large and growing number of #Vanlifers. These are digital nomads who travel in vehicles that have been converted into roaming residences.    In the digital nomad study we collaborated with MBO Partners on, we found 1.9

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AUGUST 10, 2020

  Closer to home travel : Instead of flying from country to country, digital nomads are staying closer to home due to travel restrictions and a desire to be closer to family and healthcare.    This gives millions of people the ability to become more nomadic - and many are doing so.

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MARCH 15, 2021

American Express recently released its annual Global Travel Trends report.   said that the freedom and flexibility of being able to live and work while traveling the globe is more appealing now than it was prior to the pandemic."    And not surprisingly, one of their trends was on digital nomads. 

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APRIL 27, 2020

.    These are people who embrace a location-independent, technology-enabled lifestyle that allows them to travel and work remotely, anywhere in the world that has decent Internet connections.     But the desire to travel, experience other places and cultures, and have new adventures isn't going away.  

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MAY 20, 2021

There’s empowerment in self-employment and the independence that comes from owning your own time, traveling when desired, and balancing work and private life." .  Again from the article: "Of the group that wanted to try self-employment, 59% of people said flexibility was the primary factor. " This, of course, is no surprise. 

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FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Two San Diego women launch startup for boho traveler movement covers a new app - conveniently called The VanLife App - targeted at VanLife nomads.   And boho traveler has similar connotations. The app providers traveling VanLifers with lists of campsites and other places to park overnight.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Skift's  Vienna’s New On-Demand Coworking Hotel Is the Future of Hospitality covers the new  Hotel Schani , which includes a dedicated coworking space. It also has all sorts of fancy technology that allows visitors to personalize their hotel stay and coworking experience using their mobile phone.

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OCTOBER 13, 2020

VanLifers are people who travel, work and live on the road in vans, RVs, and other vehicles.     But the VanLife movement is much broader with all age groups participating, including aging baby boomers living, working, and traveling in RVs.  million VanLifers roaming the country.

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JANUARY 25, 2021

Trends span culture, tech and innovation, travel and hospitality, brands and marketing, food and drink, beauty, retail, health, work and finance. Each includes  an original   analysis of why it matters for the organizations whose products and services we use daily.

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OCTOBER 30, 2017

In other words, workampers are a form of migrant workers that travel around in RVs funding their travels with some form of work.  But a lot of workampers are doing it because they want to and enjoy traveling around in an RV.   Mostly older, workampers are often workamping to fund or augment their retirement.

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APRIL 7, 2020

  Consumer concerns about potential new outbreaks lead to a slow recovery for the travel, entertainment, restaurant, and related industries.  Consumer concerns about new outbreaks lead to a very slow recovery for the travel, restaurant and entertainment industries as well as other industries where social distancing is required. 

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MAY 7, 2019

.  Accor is planning on rolling out 3 different types of spaces under the brand name Wojo: Wojo Spots: touchdown spaces located in the lobby's, restaurants and bars of Accor hotel properties and meant to appeal to those who need a place to work while traveling.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2017

According to a survey from the Global Business Travel Association  (GBTA), half of corporate travel policies allow for the use of ride-sharing services such as Uber or Lyft. with 30% of the corporations surveyed officially allow home-sharing service for their traveling employees. .

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JUNE 10, 2019

  Digital Nomads : These are folks who have a location-independent lifestyle that allows them to travel and work anywhere they can plug into the Internet.    While the digital nomads that tend to get the most press are the ones that travel internationally, a growing number hit the road domestically in RVs and camper vans.

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JULY 13, 2021

  Coherent, explicit digital nomad programs and policies make it easier to hire these in-demand workers and engage, reward, and retain existing employees who wish to travel. The second reason is that having digital nomads on the payroll can leave firms open to a variety of regulatory and legal risks.

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JANUARY 23, 2020

  The focus is on consumers and the report covers trends across 10 sectors, spanning marketing, culture, luxury, beauty, travel and more.  And the JWt Intelligence Future 100 Report: 2020 takes 226 pages to cover them. 

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DECEMBER 9, 2019

fatalities per 100 million vehicle miles traveled; it was 0.57 fatalities per 100 million miles traveled in 2018. .  This is because there is national data on car accident fatalities. Key quote from the Safety Report: "The Uber-related motor vehicle fatality rate for 2017 was 0.59

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APRIL 6, 2021

Employers are struggling to implement systems for tracking and compensating working and travel time for non-exempt employees, among other wage and hour concerns. Employment taxes and withholding become increasingly complex when the employer and Wandering Worker do not work in the same location.

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JUNE 29, 2020

   The first set of impacts hit consumer-facing industries, like travel, entertainment and dining.  .  If that happens, it means major cuts in operating expenses in addition to capital spending cuts. The impact on cities is a good example of the pandemic's 2nd order effects.  

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AUGUST 4, 2020

" But if there is a substantial reduction in the number of people working in offices and/or traveling to meet in offices, there will be much less need for the workers who feed, transport, clothe, entertain, and shelter people when they are not in their homes.    4. 

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APRIL 10, 2017

One of the first things you hear when you talk to digital nomads  is how their approach to travel allows them to be much more than just tourists. The New York Time's article The Digital Nomad Life: Combining Work and Travel  covers the growing number of support services that help digital nomads do this. 

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JUNE 5, 2017

We see this shift in much of work: digital nomads are blending work and life in their quest to become "temporary locals" "Bleisure" travel"  and "bizcations"  have become more popular as people combine work and pleasure travel. 

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FEBRUARY 5, 2019

  Firms are leasing shared space for everything from surge space to touchdown space for traveling executives to incubators for new products and project teams, among others. Flexible workspace providers are shifting their focus to target larger corporations and enterprise clients.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

."  Key article quote on the technologies: One day soon an emerging technology highlighted in this report will allow you to virtually teleport to a distant site and actually feel the handshakes and hugs of fellow cyber travelers.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2018

They serve a mix of industries, including retail, healthcare, insurance, travel & hospitality and others. We met with Liveops last week and learned they have about 20,000 independent agents providing customer service and sales support to over 400 enterprise clients. One of their key selling points is the skill of their agents.

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JANUARY 17, 2017

Travel Motivations Favor Rural. International travelers are starting to make rural regions like the Deep South their first destination in the US, skipping traditional big city visits. International travelers are starting to make rural regions like the Deep South their first destination in the US, skipping traditional big city visits.

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AUGUST 25, 2014

Yahoo Travel's The New Digital Nomads - Run Your Business From Anywhere in the World covers the growing trend towards people professionals who are choosing a location-independent lifestyle that allows them to travel and work anywhere in the world.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Jobbatical is a startup online talent marketplace that connects people looking for short term experiences combining work and travel with employers offering short term gigs. There is clearly a large and growing group of people who want to travel and work.  But one really jumps out.

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OCTOBER 22, 2019

  In most cases, their boss decided to allow them to travel.  Based on our digital nomad interviews, the vast majority of job holding digital nomads have been allowed to do this outside of any official corporate policy.    This is starting to change.

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MAY 3, 2018

Examples of professions that can require a license today that didn't 20 years ago include  interior designer, travel guide and auctioneer. But as licensing has grown from about 800 professions in the 1990's to over 1100 hundred today, some seem less in need of stringent control. It constrains supply and increases wages.

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APRIL 25, 2016

Business travelers, the mainstay of the rental car industry, are also switching from rental cars to ridesharing. The chart below, from business expense tracking company Certify , shows that ridesharing has surpassed rental cars in terms of total trips taken by business travelers. They also rate ridesharing higher than car rentals.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2017

They dream of becoming YouTube stars, famous videogame vloggers, or Instagram travel bloggers who are paid by sponsors to visit hotels and restaurants around the world and generate sufficient number of likes. What's interesting about this is as recently as 5 years ago, it's unlikely a senior government official in Europe or the U.S.

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JULY 31, 2017

According to Airbnb, Experiences is a platform that connects travelers with "handcrafted activities" developed by "local experts" They range from mushroom foraging in Tuscany to hiking to the Hollywood sign with a naturalist  to doing yoga on a paddle board.

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