It will be difficult to reopen borders for tourism until most of the world’s population has been vaccinated, and the disparity between developed and emerging economies could potentially hamper progress, the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) has warned.
“No one is safe until everyone is safe,” says the association’s director general Subhas Menon. He highlights that while developed countries are on track to complete the vaccination of their populations by end-2021, or in the first half of 2022, developing and emerging countries are on a “long path to achieve the same results”.
“Unfortunately, economic recovery cannot hinge on the recovery of the developed world, nor can air travel recovery just proceed among…