RV Share: Why Now Is The Time To Start Booking 2021 Travel

2020 was, of course, a strange year for travel.

It was disappointing for a lot of people. Many travelers who had cruises planned, or plane tickets, or hotel reservations found themselves having to cancel their trips and postpone vacations.

RVing is here to stay

However, it was a booming year for RV travel. RVing proved to be a safe way to continue to explore and to visit loved ones without coming into contact with a lot of people as you might in an airport or hotel. With schools and workplaces going virtual, many people also took the chance to work from the road or roadschool their kids while seeing the sights across the country. In fact, our own research showed that 80% of the people who booked RVs and trailers through RVshare in 2020 were new to our site that year!

A lot of people who discovered the joys of RVing in 2020 will continue exploring in 2021. Many people are still cautious as they travel, and a lot of people say they’re hesitant to fly. Many people have also said that visiting family and friends in 2021 is very important to them, and RVing is a great way to travel to those you love without a lot of exposure to others.

Finally, many people purchased RVs in 2020 or made sweeping lifestyle changes so that they now live in their motorhomes full-time. Those people are going to continue to travel this year as well!

Where people are traveling

According to our research, people want to travel to beaches and coastal areas, and state and national parks in 2021. Amazing scenery is also important to those heading out on road trips. Yellowstone National Park is the most popular RV travel destination in 2021, and the park had a visitor increase of 21% in September 2020 over the same time the year before.

Also, if you’re counting on traveling during normally less popular seasons, those slower times may not exist in 2021. We mentioned that Yellowstone’s visitors were up by 21% in September of last year – a time when typically kids are in school and traveling slows down. But as people work from home and kids travel while in online school, those traditional travel seasons are disappearing. Expect September and October, and even the later fall and winter months, to bring more visitors to campgrounds in 2021, and maybe even rival the summer months in terms of visitors.

Check out the rest of the article from RVshare here.