Asia's Recovery Remains Unpredictable: New Skift Travel Health Index
Skift Take
While not fully recovered, travel is taking on recognizable and predictable patterns in most regions. Asia Pacific is the exception, where there are still major fluctuations in travel performance with every new announcement of loosening and tightening of pandemic-related restrictions.
The recovery of the travel industry is not complete — our Skift Travel Health Index stands at 85 percent of pre-pandemic levels as of August — but it is taking on largely predictable patterns, with fluctuations in performance becoming milder as demand continues to strengthen. Other developments, like the war in Ukraine, is having a larger impact on fluctuations in performance than Covid-19 today.
Asia is the only exception to that rule. The region has been much later in loosening restrictions, and is behind the rest of the world in seeing demand and supply stabilizing. We see this clearly in our lat
