COVID-19 travel passports - statistics & facts
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic turned travel and tourism upside down in 2020. As most governments worldwide implemented stay-at-home measures to slow down the spread of the virus, normal travel was heavily disrupted. As a result, global leisure tourism spending roughly halved in 2020 over the previous year, while business tourism spending worldwide dropped by over 60 percent. In 2021, with mass vaccination campaigns taking place around the world, several countries started to discuss the introduction of COVID-19 travel passports – also referred to as vaccine passports – to relaunch travel and tourism during the pandemic, while minimizing the risks of new COVID-19 infections.
