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EU vaccine passport won’t spark surge in tourism

The EU’s digital Covid certificate, which is being launched tomorrow, will have very little impact on European tourism this year. Non-essential travel is already possible, but most adults are not fully vaccinated and the Delta variant is making people and governments more cautious about the health implications of foreign holidays. We expect the tourism sector to remain very subdued this summer.

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