Travel Bits: February 2024

Travel is getting expensive...... While working on my travel plans for 2024, I realised that travel is becoming really expensive. While I expect the usual price increases due to inflation , but the astronomical increase in ticket and accommodation prices far out-strip the percentage rises in inflation, at least based on my searches when checking out airline tickets and hotel accommodations . How this is so, I have no explanations. Add the fact that I am not traveling in luxury classes or staying in 5-star accommodations , the exponential increase in prices year-on-year is even more baffling. Admittedly, I am not backpacking or the like but still, middle-class travel is getting a bit out-of-reach and out-of-hand, pun intended. Thus, while I will still travel, I am cutting back on the number of trips and also on my discretionary expenses when traveling. No more souvenir hunting , no more buying something nice but my travels henceforth will focus merely on taking in the sigh...