ESCAPE: Spike in travel bookings for 2021 and beyond...

Vaccine news has led to a spike in travel bookings for 2021 and beyond. Photo credits: iStock/Washington Post illustration

Vaccine news has led to a spike in travel bookings for 2021 and beyond.

Ron Adams has some big vacation plans for next year. The ad agency president from South Jersey just has to wait another eight months to make them happen — and with this week’s distribution of the first coronavirus vaccine doses in the United States, he feels like these are plans he will not have to cancel. “We knew the trip was fully refundable,” said Adams, 47. “Certainly now that the vaccine is at least out and there’s availability and it’s happening — it’s real — it feels a lot better for sure.”

If booking trends hold up and coronavirus cases go down, Adams is likely to be joined by masses of travelers in the summer of 2021, with a swell expected to stretch into the end of the year and beyond. Read more.