Skift Take
The world has become obsessed with vaccination drives, testing, and health passports. How best to reopen destinations to domestic and international visitors in coming months will be much discussed. The efficacy around all of those approaches will certainly play a central role in governments’ decision-making.
The Skift Recovery Index has started tracking the rate of vaccination in the 22 countries covered in the Index, to see if there is any correlation between vaccination rates and travel recovery.
For now, it’s only a few countries that stand out as frontrunners, and the correlation coefficient (r) is low at 0.25 (meaning there is little correlation between vaccinations and travel performance). This makes sense as the overriding factors at present will be national lockdowns and travel restrictions, but as these start to lift later this year, we will track how vaccine rollouts impact travel performance.
You can keep track of this, and other key insights, in our free Skift Recovery Index dashboard on research.skift.com/recovery.
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