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Madeira has just announced the creation of a "green corridor" for those travelers from all over the world who have been vaccinated against Covid-19 and for those who have recovered from the disease.
The Portuguese island thus joined a series of countries such as Thailand, Seychelles, Iceland and Greece that have quickly shown interest in opening their doors to
vaccinated tourists
.
This means that some type
of vaccination certificate will be required
to travel to these and other destinations.
The World Tourism Organization has been clear: the vaccination passport will be "essential" to reactivate international travel.
Spain also believes that it is already working on a passport that guarantees safe mobility "whenever possible," according to the Minister of Industry, Commerce and Tourism, Reyes Maroto, on Monday.
The challenge is to create a document or an app
in coordination with other countries
so that it is accepted by everyone.
Estonia and the United Nations, for example, started a pilot project in October to create a digital vaccination "smart yellow card".
Different digital solutions
Iceland has issued vaccination certificates since the end of January to all its citizens who have received both doses of the vaccine.
Denmark wants to introduce its own at the end of this month.
And Sweden aspires to have it ready before the summer.
"The vaccination certificate is almost as demanded as the vaccine itself," stressed the Swedish Minister of Social Affairs, Lena Hallengren, when announcing the initiative.
For their part, Emirates and Etihad Airways airlines have partnered with the International Air Transport Association (IATA) to test the IATA Travel Pass, a mobile application that allows you to manage traveler information, including the issue of the vaccine against covid.
Any of these digital solutions would serve to avoid quarantines and PCR tests at borders.
Without a doubt, it would boost the recovery of tourism and travel.
However, it presents other challenges that have to do with guaranteeing
people's
privacy
and also with ensuring access to the one hundred percent universal certificate.
According to a study carried out by the cheap travel website Holidayguru.es, 52% of Spaniards agree that
immunized people can travel
, compared to 47.8% who would be against them being able to do so while other citizens are still waiting your vaccine.
Traveling, a matter of trust
The same survey detects one more aspect to take into account for the reactivation of travel: trust.
More than half of Spaniards say they
will wait to be vaccinated
before deciding whether to travel again.
"For national tourism the vaccine is important
to a very high degree
. When we are in an immunity
greater than 50 or 60 percent
, the summer will begin to look with other perspectives," explains to El Mundo, Alberto Peris, executive director and founding partner of CESAE Business & Tourism School.
"If we are able to increase the rate of vaccination in the next two or three months this will be the differentiating factor."
Now, not only vaccination within our borders will be key to the health of this sector, given Spain's high exposure to
international tourism
.
The expert points out that you have to be vigilant
at the rate, percentages and forecasts in countries such as the United Kingdom, Germany and France, since almost half of the tourists (40 million) who visit Spain each year come from these three countries.
"If countries like France and Germany do not keep pace, this will be a problem for Spain," Peris emphasizes.
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