Economics

World’s Biggest Economies Bet Vaccine Passports Can Save Tourism

  • Italy’s Draghi says the sector will bounce back in his country
  • G20 tourism ministers meet in Rome under Italian presidency
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The world’s most powerful economies agreed to back plans for so-called vaccine passports in a bid to pull the travel and tourism industry out of a pandemic-fueled slump.

Tourism ministers from the Group of 20 threw their weight behind the new certificates, stressing that a resumption of normal activity for the sector is crucial to global economic recovery, according to Italian Tourism Minister Massimo Garavaglia.