The World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) has published a report offering a blueprint to governments on how best to implement a common digital travel portal.
The portal would make global travel simpler by collecting and processing traveller’s health information ahead of travel, with the digital platform replacing paper and QR codes.
Travellers would be able to electronically share, for instance, their digital Covid vaccination status or any other required documentation, which would then be verified before they begin their journey. The WTTC states that this would reduce “traveller anxiety and burden at airports”.
The ‘Implementing a Digital Travel Portal’ report has been created by the WTTC and The Commons Project Foundation.
The WTTC is calling for a “clear global system focused on an individual’s health status that does not bring international travel to a standstill”.
While prompted by Covid-19, the WTTC asserts that the portal would be of great use beyond the…
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