Platform Professional's Platforms and Digital Nomads covers online platforms supporting digital nomads. Key quote:
"Platforms may not have created the phenomenon of the digital nomad, but they are making it easier to become one."
The article focuses on the challenges digital nomads face and how platforms help digital nomads overcome them. These include:
- Finding places to stay
- Finding and managing remote work
- Finding unique and exciting travel and cultural experiences
- Avoiding loneliness and finding community
Despite its title, their chart below (click to enlarge) shows 11 platforms that provide services that help digital nomads.
Another interesting article on digital nomads is Work and Wander: What Today’s Digital Nomads Signal for the Future of Travel, from Adventure Travel News.
It's targeted at the travel industry and how it can better support the needs of digital nomads. Key quote:
Although digital nomads may not be a traditional target market for adventure businesses, their very nature makes them adventure travelers. This group wants to truly experience a destination by staying for an extended period of time. Their ability to work from anywhere means they are also generating income while they travel. Therefore, attracting digital nomads is one way destinations, accommodations, and activities can support their recovery.
Our first reaction when COVID-19 hit was it would greatly reduce the number of digital nomad. Instead, their numbers skyrocketed.
And while we don't expect the growth rate in the number of digital nomads in 2021 to be nearly as strong as 2020, we expect the number of digital nomads to continue to increase over the next 2-3 years.
