Those who are vaccinated have an advantage.
This also applies to vacationers.
The upgrading of large parts of the popular winter travel destination Austria to a high-risk area illustrates this. Practically nothing changes for those vaccinated who have planned a skiing holiday.
There is a new situation for those who have not been vaccinated: They have to be forced into quarantine after they return home.
That thwarts vacation plans.
As a result, holiday providers, hotels and restaurants will inevitably have losses again.
Tourism managers are still rarely saying it openly, but unvaccinated customers are becoming a burden for the travel industry. The majority of providers still shy away from 2-G regulations unless they are ordered by the state. Because after a long time with immense loss of income, they prefer to first accept every customer and their money. Providers who can or must afford it have switched. Otherwise it is left with pleading appeals that all customers should please be vaccinated. Behind the scenes, it has long been whispered: If there is extra work at the wrong time, it is because of the unvaccinated. Almost only for them do the travel rules change in quick succession, only for them is an administrative effort related to tests necessary.
With Austria and the Czech Republic, high-risk areas are no longer somewhere in the distance, but again directly behind the German border. This realization already has a psychological effect that will reduce booking numbers. Families are also lost as customers, since the separation obligation - albeit shortened - also applies to children and the Christmas holidays are not enough to accommodate quarantine days. Companies would have liked to save themselves a wave of cancellation by the unvaccinated.
The longer the pandemic and the recent handling of it continue, the more feasible the path to 2G as the industry standard.
Lufthansa has already emphasized: The vaccination rate among its international travelers is disproportionately high.
That means: the further Germans want to wander into the distance - one can say the more cosmopolitan they are - the greater the caution seems.