Peter Bomberg
Contributor
My opinion, is as long as the place is clean, the staff is friendly and the food is good (flavorful and plentiful) then honestly all is good, of course the key is the diving.
I am going to burn in a special place, but ... We may be waiting a very long time for an affordable and generally available vaccine so I would not hold my breath, a vaccine costing 100 per dose is not a global solution! No business can survive running at 1/2 or lower capacity (they never have had the profit margin to do so) so lets be honest forget social distancing in the long run. Sure we can cancel mass events (read 5,000 or more) but the idea that planes will run at 1/3 capacity is never going to work in the long run.
So to your question I think it will take a long time to get back to normal, but I think normal will be very close to how it was in 2018, there will be some people that will avoid going back to normal but most (myself included) will happily get on a full flight to go for an amazing dive vacation at a price we can afford instead of seeing the prices increase by a factor of 3 or 4! or watching all of the great places vanish as they cant make ends meet.
Now I will go burn in .... but my 0.02 is if you were a great business before (ie one people wanted to visit) then dont change anything, sure allow people to spread out, allow them to wipe the handles and so on but dont change your business model.
I am going to burn in a special place, but ... We may be waiting a very long time for an affordable and generally available vaccine so I would not hold my breath, a vaccine costing 100 per dose is not a global solution! No business can survive running at 1/2 or lower capacity (they never have had the profit margin to do so) so lets be honest forget social distancing in the long run. Sure we can cancel mass events (read 5,000 or more) but the idea that planes will run at 1/3 capacity is never going to work in the long run.
So to your question I think it will take a long time to get back to normal, but I think normal will be very close to how it was in 2018, there will be some people that will avoid going back to normal but most (myself included) will happily get on a full flight to go for an amazing dive vacation at a price we can afford instead of seeing the prices increase by a factor of 3 or 4! or watching all of the great places vanish as they cant make ends meet.
Now I will go burn in .... but my 0.02 is if you were a great business before (ie one people wanted to visit) then dont change anything, sure allow people to spread out, allow them to wipe the handles and so on but dont change your business model.