With school districts across the U.S. closing in-person classes for the remainder of the academic year (and possibly beyond), parents are searching the internet for kid-friendly activities to keep their little ones occupied and entertained at home. More importantly, without regular school activity, parents are looking for options that are both fun and educational. DMOs can be an excellent resource for this in-demand content, whether it’s historical, artistic, cultural, scientific or all of the above. 

Here are a few examples of creative ways that DMOs can help out during this era of distance learning while also amplifying the efforts of their local partners and businesses.

1) Classes and Demonstrations

Give parents a break from homeschooling...

Since March 2020, Longwoods International and Miles Partnership have been surveying U.S. travelers each week on their response to and travel behavior around the COVID-19 crisis.

In each survey, we have also asked a rotating set of four custom questions which tell us a lot about how U.S. travel will return, where travelers will turn to for information and what travel will look like when it comes back.

Here is the story of the travel’s recovery in the U.S. as told by these four questions and visualized in these graphs.

1. Dreaming About Travel & Supporting Locals

U.S. travelers continue to dream about future travel when it is possible to safely do so. The travel and leisure content of most interest to U.S. travelers during the crisis are deals and offers for “travel, dining and entertainment that they can be used in the future,” when...