widthHe has the advantage of being vaccinated. This also applies to holidaymakers. This is illustrated by upgrading most of Austria, a popular winter tourist destination, to high-risk areas. For those planning vaccinations on a ski holiday, there is hardly any change. For people who have not been vaccinated, a new situation has emerged: they must be forced to isolate after returning home. This hinders holiday planning. Therefore, vacation suppliers, hotels and restaurants will inevitably suffer losses again.
Travel managers still rarely speak out publicly, but unvaccinated customers are becoming a burden on the travel industry. Most suppliers still avoid the 2-G regulations unless they are ordered by the state. Because after a long period of huge loss of income, they are more willing to accept each customer and their money first. Vendors who can or must afford it have switched. Otherwise, there will be a plea that all customers should be vaccinated. Behind the scenes, there have been people whispering: If there is extra work at the wrong time, it is because there is no vaccination. Almost only for them, the travel rules will change quickly and continuously, and only for them, it is necessary to carry out the management work related to the test.
For Austria and the Czech Republic, the high-risk area is no longer somewhere in the distance, but directly behind the German border. This realization has had a psychological impact and will reduce the number of bookings. Families have also lost customers because the separation obligation-although shortened-also applies to children, and the Christmas holiday is not enough to accommodate the isolation day. The company had hoped to avoid the wave of cancellation by people who have not been vaccinated.
The longer the pandemic and recent processing lasts, the more feasible the path to 2G as an industry standard. Lufthansa has emphasized that its vaccination rate for international passengers is disproportionately high. This means that the more Germans want to wander farther away-so to speak, the more international they are-the more cautious they seem.
