Tour Operators Embrace Vaccine Mandates While Grappling With Covid-Induced Changes

Destinations around the world have been increasingly enacting measures requiring proof of Covid-19 vaccination for entry into public places, such as numerous members of the European Union mandating people display Covid passports to enter places such as restaurants, movie theaters and gyms. Likewise, New York City implemented its own expansive vaccine mandate earlier this month that includes museums, swimming pools in addition to the same places the European Union is requiring proof of vaccination to enter. So how have tour operators — many of which are taking guests to locations requiring proof of vaccination for entrance into public places — reacting to the growing number of mandates? They are, by and large, supportive of the measures, even if they've had to adjust their operators. Many of them have enacted their own vaccine mandates. "As a company overall, we are pro-vaccine," said Steve Born, the chief marketing officer at the Globus family of brands, which includes C