January has come and gone and still the world doesn’t look that much different from when we ended 2020. International borders are still closed, countries are still in various forms of lockdowns and restrictions and airlines are set to face another disastrous year.

So what will 2021 hold for us in travel? Well, we begin the first podcast of 2021 with a collection of views – a poem of hope read by Emma Demopoulos, key takeaways from the WiT 2021 Questionnaire, which we sent to a selection of industry players, and an encouragement for you to visualise or verbalise your way out of this. As George Orwell said, words form our world. What’s your word for 2021?