Christian Kaelin, chairman of Henley & Partners who came up with the passport index concept, however believes that tourists, including Asians, will soon be making good use of their powerful passports. “The shock of the pandemic was unlike anything seen in our lifetimes,” he said in a press statement. “The recovery and reclamation of our travel freedoms and our innate instinct to move and migrate will take time.”

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