One of the most today hotly debated Topics is the “digital health passport, ”Or a vaccination certificate that stores a person’s health information related to Covid-19, e.g. B. Vaccination protocols and test results. A new poll adds another data point on how well the traveling audience might accept such passports.
According to a study commissioned by travel technology giant Amadeus, nine out of ten travelers would use digital health passes to make it easier to restart travel.
At the end of February, Censuswide conducted the survey of 9,055 travelers in France, Spain, Germany, India, the United Arab Emirates, Russia, Singapore, Great Britain and the USA on behalf of Amadeus.
As a cautionary note, 93 percent of travelers surveyed also said they had “some concerns” about how their health records were stored. Travelers told survey respondents that their main concern is that their personal information falls into the wrong hands and that they have no control over who can access their information.
Despite the concerns, 62 percent of travelers said they would be more likely to use an app to store their health information if a travel company partnered with a trusted health company to create the app.
Amadeus has some interest in the debate. The Madrid based company is Embed digital health passports Airports and travel providers are incorporated into the software to store and verify travel identification documents.
Plans for vaccination certificates are still in flux. Aruba is one of the rare countries start one. Several European Union governments hope to come up with a plan by mid-June to provide vaccinated Europeans with a barcode certificate that airport officials can scan to verify vaccinations.
An intercity train in Europe. Source: Eurostar.
CommonPass is a standard that proposes a model in which travelers take a Covid-19 test in a certified laboratory and upload the results to their mobile phone. Vaccination logs could be saved in a similar way.
A dispute has started over who should pay for digital health passes. While border control officers mainly inspect visas, airlines have long had to confirm that passengers have the correct visas before departure. Given last year’s revenue crisis, many airlines say they don’t have the resources to monitor digital health passports.
In the United States, the Biden government said it had no plans to commission or fund digital health passports. In Europe, an intergovernmental proposal would only allocate money for building a central portal, not for the other work to make test and vaccination certification widespread.
For information on the context of digital health passports, see This comprehensive overview of digital passports in Skift’s video interview last month with Paul Meyer, CEO of the Commons Project Foundation. To find out more, read on Skift’s Explainer: Digital health passes explained in 5 questions.
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Photo credit: Here you can see a digital health passport. A survey of more than 9,000 travelers in multiple countries found that 91 percent are satisfied with digital health passes to make it easier to restart travel, according to a study commissioned by Amadeus. CommonPass
