Travel

Travel and tourism in Peru continues to face challenges in 2021, following the impacts from the event of COVID-19 in 2020. International travel (depending on the border regulations in other countries) is allowed again, along with in-country travel…

Travel in Belgium will continue to suffer in 2021, largely due to COVID-19 and related travel and movement restrictions. Since the country’s borders remained close from mid-January to mid-April 2021, many Belgians decided to partake in domestic…

Following significant declines in 2020 as a direct result of the pandemic and global restrictive measures put in place to control the spread of the virus, inbound travel flows to Vietnam are likely to remain limited during 2021 due to border control…

In Norway, travel restrictions relating to COVID-19 were stronger during the first half of 2021 than throughout the whole of 2020. However, borders have been slowly reopening since June, and from 24 June people who were fully vaccinated from COVID-19…

Travel in Italy continued to be impacted by the lingering effects of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic during 2021. While restrictions remain in place, if slowly easing, inbound and outbound flows are seeing rebounds in numbers of trips and…

All categories are projected to see very strong growth rates in value sales and number of people terms in 2021. However, such high growth is derived from a relatively low base, following the steep declines recorded in 2020. Therefore, tourist flows…

In spite of having plunged by more than half during 2020 due to COVID-19 disruption and the economic shock it engendered, travel retail current value sales will see no more than a modest recovery during 2021. With both inbound and outbound…

The outbreak of COVID-19 left Israel effectively closed to tourism from March until September 2020, with its gradual reopening severely hindered by a resurgence in virus infection numbers across the world in early 2021. This has had a devastating…

2021 is a year of reactivation in travel and tourism in Colombia, even in the presence of COVID-19 peaks and a state of political turmoil. As the industry reopens, following the quarantine lockdowns of 2020, the country is quickly showing an…

Like every country, China’s travel industry was severely hit by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Since the lockdown policy began easing from April 2020 and the macroeconomy started to get back on track, domestic tourism has gradually been on the road…

Malaysia’s travel industry continues to be severely impacted by COVID-19 in 2021 following a dramatic downturn in 2020 when the pandemic first emerged resulting in lockdowns and border closures, while both inbound and outbound passenger numbers…

More than one year from the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Indonesia’s travel and tourism industry has begun to show some signs of a genuine recovery from the pandemic situation. With the country’s borders still closed to most foreign visitors and…

Staying close to home continues to be the major theme in travel for the year 2021. New COVID-19 cases remain high in Canada at the time of writing. With many international travel restrictions staying in place, most Canadians are choosing to travel to…

As in most countries globally, travel in Germany has been directly challenged by the pandemic in 2021, especially in the first half of the year, when businesses and consumers were affected by strict lockdown measures. Germany is traditionally home to…

Travel in Ukraine has seen significant signs of a recovery during 2021 with the rolling out of vaccinations on a global scale helping to make travel possible again, while a resumption of economic activities has helped to boost disposable income. As…

Travel in Switzerland continued to be severely affected by new infection waves in the country and globally as the COVID-19 pandemic remained the overarching theme for the industry in 2021. With international travel restrictions still in place, the…

Strong growth in domestic tourism characterised New Zealanders travel patterns in 2021, while the term ‘travel bubble’ entered New Zealand’s lexicon. The country has enjoyed relatively few restrictions as it has a strong leader managing and…

Travel in the Philippines will continue to be impacted during 2021 by various restrictions in place as a result of the pandemic, with another wave of COVID-19 cases, driven by new variants, emerging in the country in April. The gradual recovery that…

The COVID-19 pandemic led travel to be hit hard in 2020, and this continued into the start of 2021. The Dutch government advised its citizens not to travel abroad until 15 May 2021. After this date, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ traffic light…

Saudi Arabia started operating international flights at full capacity at the Kingdom’s land, sea and airports as the travel ban on Saudi citizens ended on 17 May 2021, after 14 months of restriction. Post 17 May, citizens were permitted to travel and…