The latest UN Tourism Visa Openness report on global visa policies reveals continuous shifts in international travel regulations.
The report sheds light on the evolving landscape of travel facilitation. It includes the Tourism Visa Openness Index, which measures the degree to which destinations facilitate tourism and how open a country is in terms of visa facilitation for tourism purposes.
Also, mobility scores are included to indicate the extent to which citizens around the world are subject to visa policies, as well as an in-depth analysis of the reciprocity of visa policies.
Key findings include:
- Return to pre-pandemic openness: Destinations’ openness to international travel has rebounded to pre-pandemic levels following the lifting of COVID-19-related travel restrictions. As a consequence of the pandemic, new forms of travel facilitation, such as ‘nomadic visas’, also appeared.
- Decline in traditional visa requirements: Fewer people worldwide now require a traditional…
