Tourism Tidbits: Travel Rage in a Time of Pandemics

Peter E. Tarlow | August 3, 2020

By Dr. Peter Tarlow During the last decade, tourism officials have noted the evolution of various types of angers among those in the general public and especially among those in the traveling public.  These angers first became apparent in the form of road rage then became air-rage, morphed into full-blown travel rage, with verbal anger at times turning into physical violence.  Now in a time of pandemic, with the public never sure about what is and will be open or closed, we face the newest form of rage: “Travel Pandemic Rage”. Due to an ever-increasing tourism bureaucracy and often poor levels of customer service som...