Are “vaccination passports” the future of international travel?

This appeared in The Millennial Source

The rollout of effective vaccinations promises relief to certain industries that have been relentlessly battered by the pandemic.

With the numbers of vaccinated individuals slowly rising around the United States, a tantalizing prospect has risen for the not-so-distant future — a return to relative normality.

A vaccine that has been proven successful, safe and is widely-available has long been hailed as the beginning of the end of the coronavirus pandemic, which to date has now killed nearly 340,000 in the US alone.

In recent weeks, the number of promising vaccine candidates has only expanded. Vaccines developed by American pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. (in collaboration with German partner BioNTech SE) and Moderna Inc. appear to hold the most promise, reporting efficacy rates of over 90%.

Outside of the realm of public health, however, the rollout of effective vaccinations promises relief to certain industries that have been relentlessly battered by the pandemic.

Few industries stand to benefit more from a return to normality than the international airline industry, which suffered immensely from the coronavirus pandemic as it put an end to the majority of international…