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COVID-19 – Travel as Lockdown Comes to an End

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Thank you to all who take time to participate in our surveys. CRA uses the information we gather to better serve you. If you have an idea for a survey for CRA members, please send your request to CRA at Info@CalRental.org. This month, we asked members about their travel plans as the COVID-19 lockdown ends.

1. What type of Rental Business do you have?
General Rental: 54% (15 responses)
Party Rental: 25% (7 responses)
Both: 21% (6 responses)

2. Are you planning to travel this summer?
Yes: 46% (13 responses)
No: 32% (9 responses)
Not sure: 21% (6 responses)

3. How do you plan to travel? (Check all that apply.)
Car: 50% (6 responses)
Plane: 42% (5 responses)
RV: 50% (6 responses)

4. Where will you go?
1. Yosemite, Mammoth, Vegas.
2. Carlsbad State Beach.
3. Pensacola, FL.
4. MO.
5. Dale’s Sendoff, CRA Board meeting.
6. Georgia, Oklahoma, Iowa, Ohio, Mexico.
7. Lake Tahoe and Sacramento.
8. Tahoe and Oregon Coast.
9. My new home in Oregon.
10. Alaska.
11. West Coast.
12. Oregon, Willows, CA.

5 .Why aren’t you traveling? (Check all that apply.)
No time: 10% (1 response)
No money: 20% (2 responses)
Nowhere to go: 40% (4 responses)
Don’t like to travel: 10% (1 response)
COVID-19 concerns: 70% (7 responses)
Additional comment:
1. No plans and need to travel this summer.

6. Do you think you will travel at Christmas?
Yes: 22% (6 responses)
No: 56% (15 responses)
Not sure: 22% (6 responses)
Additional comments:
1. No, not because of COVID-19 though.
2. Hopefully, we’ll be too busy.
3. Very much depends on virus hotspots.
4. We normally don’t travel at Christmas anyway.

7. CRA’s Rental Rally Tradeshow is January 25 - 27, 2021. Do you plan to travel to Las Vegas for the show?
Yes: 56% (15 responses)
No: 11% (3 responses)
Not sure at this time: 33% (9 responses)
Additional comments:
1. If you are in the rental business it’s the place to be.
2. Very much depends on virus hotspots.

8. Why aren’t you planning on attending the Rental Rally Tradeshow?
1. COVID-19. (2 responses)
2. I typically attend the ARA show instead.

9. Are you planning on attending any other Tradeshows or Conferences?
Yes: 44% (12 responses)
No: 52% (14 responses)
Additional comments:
1. ARA. (2 responses)
2. But, very much depends on virus hotspots.
4. IAUA.
5. Not sure.

10. Why not?
1. Everything one needs can be had at the CRA show with the possible exception of a long plane ride to one of those other shows.
2. Laying low at present.
3. Currently can’t afford it.
4. No need.
5. COVID-19 concerns. (4 responses)
6. No money, not ready to travel and mix with too many people.
7. Old and set in my ways.
8. Not sure about any other shows at this time.
9. I only attend the CRA Show.
10. COVID-19 concerns, have a granddaughter with heart problems cannot give her Covid-19. Playing it safe.

11. Do you have any additional comments on this survey?
1. Plan to be safe and cautious but still plan to move forward.
2. I am very concerned by the health and safety of everyone around me. I need to be careful and safe to protect those that I am around at work and at home.
3. It depend on how the quarantine works during the travel trips.
4. We need to move on!
5. Repeal the minimum wage and give small business a fighting chance.

12. Survey Ideas
1. Can we do a survey NOT related to COVID-19??
2. Would you be willing to contact your state legislators and ask them to repeal the minimum wage?

 

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