Global Tourism Recovery Still 2 Years Off Due to Vaccine Inequity: New Report
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The report is a reminder that tourism's impact goes far beyond the airport, hotel lobby, or attraction.
An uneven rollout of vaccines around the world means that "it is unlikely that tourism will bounce back to its pre-pandemic levels within a year or two," according to a new report written by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and issued by the UN World Tourism Organization. Other models in the study pointed to recovery after 2024.
The revitalization of international tourism will depend on three factors according to the report's authors: vaccination rate, willingness to travel, and recovery of labor markets. In the short term, the most important of the three being the both access to
