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Vaccine 'better for confidence than shorter quarantine'

Economy
James Chapple
15 December 2020

The rollout of a Covid-19 vaccine has done more to boost consumers’ confidence to travel than efforts to reduce the length of any return quarantine requirement, a new survey has revealed.

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Skyscanner’s data showed that while more than a third of British consumers want to travel overseas in the next six months, only a third of these people said they would be swayed by the prospect of a shorter period of self-isolation upon return – such as that offered by the government’s new test to release scheme, which came into effect on Tuesday (15 December).