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of the International Air Transport Association Travel Pass app. e app, which stores and manages passengers’ Covid certi cations and documents needed to enter a country, was trialled from Monday 15 March 28 March. If successful, the Travel Pass app will be integrated into Singapore Airline’s passenger process in mid-2021.
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BUT WHAT ABOUT MEETING PLANNERS?
PLANNERS THEMSELVES are getting more con dent that business is coming back – in the US at least. According to Northstar Meetings Group’s latest PULSE Survey (Feb. 18 to March 2), 81 per cent of meeting planners will hold their next in-person event sometime this year. Most of that business (59 per cent) will fall in the second half of 2021. Just 19 per cent will hold their next real-life gathering in 2022 or later. Almost a quarter (22 per cent) of the survey’s 929 respondents will hold or will have held face- to-face events by the end of the second quarter. Interestingly association meeting planners were the most optimistic. Planners in Europe show more caution about resuming face-to-face events, and more reliance on virtual and hybrid meeting formats, found a concurrent UK PULSE Survey conducted by Northstar’s UK-based titles AMI and Meetings & Incentive Travel. Here 70 per cent of planners expect to hold their next in- person event this year. e survey found that most respondents expect to hold their next in- person or hybrid meeting in the second half of the year, with 32 per cent in Q3 and 29 per cent in Q4. 64 per cent of planners were ‘mostly planning virtual events.’
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