From “PPE” to “flattening the curve,” the COVID-19 era has added a host of new phrases to our popular lexicon.
One of the most perplexing has to be “revenge travel,” which speaks to the zealous need many of us have to experience sunnier climes after a year or two in a pandemic holding pattern.
No one is quite sure who minted the expression; some people in the tourism business find it a bit distasteful. But it was on full display this past summer, as the mortal risk of COVID-19 subsided and travel returned in force. Airports around the world — including, infamously, Toronto’s Pearson — buckled under the strain.
They don’t want YOU to fly.
