@hippietrail I wouldn't blame the chatroom. Rather, I'd blame people not travelling as much as they used to.

@JoErNanO I think people are almost back to normal for tourist travel (see TSA stats for example), its just that Travel.SE has been steadily losing traffic to new resources like Youtube travel guides

the US is 85% back to normal for flights - and that's primarily because of a drop in business travel, tourist travel actually seems to be up

only thing that's still depressed is tourist visa issuance - i.e. B1/B2 visas issued from India are down from 60k in March 2019 to 30k in March 2022

Amtrak is reinstating much of its Northeast Corridor service in anticipation of summer demand