Travel

• [New] Because of the current situation in Canada, even fully vaccinated travelers may be at risk for getting and spreading COVID-19 variants and should avoid all travel to Canada.
• [New] The CDC is more cautious about international travel, noting the increased risk of variants in other countries, even for people who are fully vaccinated.
• [New] The travel and tourism sector is not expected to recover to the 2019 level until 2023.
• [New] The worsening situation could delay the further relaxation of lockdowns and prompt other countries to impose travel bans on Mexico.
• [New] Several other countries are looking at the role of vaccination passports for overseas travel, which is going to be a fact of life, probably.
• [New] A bubble is highly anticipated by the struggling tourism industry hoping an influx of Australian visitors will ease the loss of foreign tourists.
• [New] Once travel resumes, Britain will rank countries on a traffic-light system as green, yellow or red based on their level of vaccinations, infections and worrying new virus variants.
• [New] Given recent studies evaluating the real-world effects of vaccination, CDC recommends that fully vaccinated people can travel at low risk to themselves.
• [New] If vaccine passports based on Chinese jabs come into widespread use, China would gain an edge in global tourism, and its business executives could gain a head start in making deals.
• [New] INVESTORS' long term outlook for hotel investment in the Philippines remains positive while the hospitality sector is expected to soon transition to a period of recovery.
• [New] The return of transatlantic demand will depend greatly on the removal of travel restrictions between the US and Europe.
• [New] The tourism sector remains exposed to downside risks given the recent coronavirus resurgence in Europe, amid vaccination delays, and subsequent uncertainties about resuming international travel.
• [New] Following the severe slump in international tourism last year - an important source of foreign currency revenue in Turkey - we expect a recovery in 2021.
• [New] We continue to expect only a very gradual recovery in international travel, which will weigh on the economies where tourism is an important source of employment and foreign currency revenues, such as Thailand and Turkey.
• [New] International travel poses additional risks and even fully vaccinated travelers are at increased risk for getting and possibly spreading new COVID-19 variants.
• [New] Vaccine passports will not be introduced on a permanent basis but they could be a beneficial tool in the short term to safely reopen venues.
• [New] While leisure travel within the United States may be recovering steadily, airlines expect it will still take until 2023 or 2024 for passenger volumes to reach 2019 levels.
• [New] Recent research on the effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccines indicates there is low risk to vaccinated individuals and that they can travel without a COVID-19 test or quarantining after traveling.
• [New] People who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 will be able to resume domestic and overseas travel without a mandatory self-quarantine or return testing if they wear masks in public, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has determined.
• Boris Johnson's plans for Covid-19 passports could be discriminatory and give people a false sense of security.
• Within the United States, vaccinated people will not have to quarantine or take a Covid-19 test after traveling, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

Last updated: 10 April 2021