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90 Percent of Global Travelers Would Embrace Health Passports to Jumpstart Travel: Amadeus Study

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Photo Credit: Shown here is one digital health pass. A survey of more than 9,000 travelers in multiple countries found that 91 percent would be comfortable using digital health passports to help restart travel, says Amadeus-commissioned research. CommonPass

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It's interesting to hear that travelers are open to digital health passports, once the right safeguards are in place to protect their data. But it still remains unclear who will pay for and manage the vaccination certifications.

One of today's most hotly debated topics is the "digital health passport," or a vaccination certification that stores a person's health information related to Covid-19, such as vaccination records and test results. A new survey adds another data point on how well the traveling public might accept such passports. According to a study commissioned by travel technology giant Amadeus, nine out of ten travelers would be comfortable using digital health passports to help restart travel. Censuswide did the late February survey of 9,055 travelers in France, Spain, Germany, India, United Arab Emirates, Russia, Singapore, UK, and the U.S. o

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