The golden age of cheap, easy travel is over – Traveller

In the year 2000, you could have had Cambodia’s famous Angkor Wat temple virtually to yourself. Photo: iStock
We’ve just lived through a golden age of travel. Until COVID-19 came along and kneecapped our plans, the travel gods smiled on us.
Over the past two decades, travel has become cheaper, new airlines have opened up fresh routes with easy access to new destinations, the sharing economy has brought us couchsurfing and Airbnb and technology has transformed the way we travel.
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