The International Air Transport Association announced the launch of their new COVIDE related travel pass earlier this spring. The travel pass has long been in the making, and with international travel becoming more and more likely by the end of the summer, at least at the time of writing this article, the IATA Travel Pass aims to unite countries and airlines under one organised COVID regulatory app. The Travel Pass is still being scrutinised by many airlines and governments but could become one of the key initiatives that relaunch international tourism. Whether you’re applying for a Kenya Visa or a tourist pass to China, the travel app could well be used by most countries across the world by October.
But what exactly is the Travel Pass, and how will it affect tourism in the long run? Whether you’re applying for a tourist’s Thailand Visa business Visa, the effectiveness of the Travel Pass will have longstanding effects on the efficiency of your journey. But is it feasible, and will it be taken on by airlines and governments, many of whom have their own sets of regulations when it comes to COVID 19? This blog will explore the potential benefits of mass-use of IATA’s new digital app, and how it can help airlines and governments navigate the tricky terrain of post-COVID tourism.
What Is The IATA Travel Pass?
The IATA Travel Pass is a digital app that travellers can download before their trip abroad. The Travel Pass is used as a means to present their verified information concerning their COVID vaccine and general health status at the border of the country they’re visiting. This makes it a lot easier to travel abroad, especially when you don’t have paper documents to factor into your luggage.
Government Verification
One of the most useful aspects of the IATA Travel Pass is how easy and simple the information is to process. Border authorities can quickly check and confirm the validity of your health documents as necessary, and with this, your presence in the country is known. This is vital to the COVID relief, countries need to know who is in the country and when so as to avoid and suppress any outbreaks of the coronavirus, especially any infections in people who might be crossing borders into other countries.
Useful Passenger Information
Further to national security, the Travel Pass will also be used as a means of relaying information from airlines to passengers. With rules and restrictions changing and varying from country to country, it’s important to keep up to date with what you’ll need, how long you may need to quarantine for and what risks your presence could pose on others and yourself. With international efforts to quell the virus generally being isolated to the responses of individual countries, the IATA Travel Pass has the potential to unite many countries in monitoring and controlling the coronavirus.
This, of course, will make travel a lot easier for tourists and will ensure that they feel as safe as possible and are processed as efficiently as can be.
Medical Certificates
One other aspect that will make travel far safer for airlines is that those countries and airlines that opt into the app will then be able to verify COVID certificates and the validity of the documents that tourists present. There has been an uptick in faked COVID certificate documents, which can pose a clear and present threat to an area and country.
If you want to know more about your countries COVID guidelines, please visit their website for the latest travel advice before following any of the above.
AdminPUBLISHED ON 08 Jul 2021
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