Skift Take
The travel recovery continues, but the strong performance of a few standout countries, including the U.S., Mexico, and China, disguises continuing weakness in especially Europe and Asia.
Travel's recovery is not straightforward. The gap between the top performing countries and those struggling, is widening. We’ve been saying it from early on in the pandemic, but the latest data from the Skift Recovery Index highlights how this is really playing out in front of our eyes now.
The average global Index score took another jump up, now standing at an average of 58 points in April 2021, compared to a baseline of 100 in April 2019.
The index score is a holistic and real-time measure of where the travel industry at-large — and the core verticals within it — stands in recovering from the Covid-19 pandemic. We take over 50 different indicators from 18 data partners from the travel industry to measure how the industry is performing compared to the same time in 2019. We are happy
