What does this mean in the age of COVID? <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\nWhile the rankings may currently appear to be of no consequence since TrinBagonians can’t travel, the index still provides some interesting insight into the future of travel freedom in a world that has been transformed by the effects of COVID. Between PCR tests, quarantine regulations and talks of mandated vaccine passports, in a post-COVID world, the power of our passports may rely on our collective risk factor for spreading the virus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It also means that for developed and developing nations alike, travel freedom is currently not only the result of a lack of social freedom or poor economic development but also a failure of risk management, health readiness, monitoring and detection. In other words, global immobility is no longer solely the plight of citizens of less advanced countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Just a year ago all indications were that the rates of global mobility would continue to rise, that travel freedom would increase, and those holders of powerful passports would enjoy more access than ever before,” says Christian H. Kaelin, chairman of leading residence and citizenship advisory firm Henley & Partners and the inventor of the passport index concept. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“The global lockdown negated these glowing projections, and as restrictions begin to lift, the results from the latest index are a reminder of what passport power really means in a world upended by the pandemic.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It seems like a lifetime ago since we last made our way to the airport and flashed our passports before hopping on a flight to the next destination on our travel bucket list. Travel came to a screeching halt following the outbreak of the pandemic, and although some countries have re-opened its borders, COVID-19 has…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[368],"tags":[524,127,333],"thb-sponsors":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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