SINGAPORE, 2 July 2021: After flights were largely grounded and travellers stayed home in 2020, the return to travel has become one of the most anticipated and uncertain activities of 2021.
Mastercard released earlier this week its Recovery Insights:
Ready for Takeoff? Research which gives a view of key travel trends around the
world.
While the global travel recovery remains uneven, one-fifth
of countries studied have returned to at least 90% of pre-pandemic levels for
domestic flight bookings; with Australia surpassing the global average with
bookings at 116%.
The report draws on aggregated and anonymized sales activity
across the global Mastercard network, along with third-party data sets and