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Casa Cupula Luxery Hotel reached out to its customers to gauge how COVID-19 was impacting their travel plans to return back to Puerto Vallarta.
In a news release it says that 336 people responded to the survey. While most (81%) had planned to visit Puerto Vallarta before the end of 2020, the pandemic has changed those plans.
Now, about half of those plan to return later in 2020 with 36% of those waiting until 2021. The average duration of a delay was about eight months from when originally planned.
Concern about the safety of air travel in general was among the top concerns cited – with 65% saying they were greatly or somewhat concerned about this. Comparatively 51% were specifically concerned about traveling to Vallarta. General anxiety about COVID is affecting LGBT travelers with 62% cited “general uncertainty” as their greatest reason to delay their next trip to PV, with 56% also concerned about air travel.
Financial hardship is not among the top concerns – only 20% of this sample of mostly luxury travelers cited economic hardship, and 17% workplace travel restrictions, while 38% cited limited airline options (respondents could choose more than one reason).
The survey of these individuals shows that COVID has hit the LGBT community hard. Fully 66% were personally affected by COVID. While only 5% reported contracting COVID themselves, 30% of you have friends or family who have had it. Sadly, 3% reported someone close to them passing away, and 29% knew of someone in their friendship circle. This matches the number of people who said COVID had strongly or somewhat affected the area they lived in (58%) with only 4% saying it had not affected their city at all.
Respondents were mostly from the US (84%) with 10% from Canada.
Casa Cupula will begin a staged reopening on June 1, according to local laws with new protocols for safety and health to protect our guests.