Skift Travel Health Index

Global Index Score: 101

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The Skift Travel Health Index is a real-time measure of the performance of the travel industry at large, and the core verticals within it. The Index provides the travel industry with a powerful tool for strategic planning and tracking global travel performance.

Skift Research launched the Index in May 2020 as the Skift Recovery Index. At the start of 2022 we rebranded the Index as the Skift Travel Health Index, to reflect some far-ranging changes: the addition of many more indicators, additional data partners.

In 2026, we anticipate moderate growth above 2025 performance levels. The Skift Travel Health Index will continue with year-on-year (YoY) indexing this year.

As of March 2026, the global Skift Travel Health Index stands at 101 points relative to a baseline reading of 100 for the same month in 2025.

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Skift Travel Health Index: April 2023 Highlights

For the first time since January 2020, the Skift Travel Health Index has seen its global score move beyond 100, indicating how global tourism is now performing better than it did before the pandemic. Every region included in our index showcased growth over the last month.
Saniya Zanpure |
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Skift Travel Health Index: March 2023 Highlights

India has all the cards to become the next mega source market for international travel, although major barriers still need to be overcome. The country has been performing extremely well in our Skift Travel Health Index.
Saniya Zanpure |
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Skift Travel Health Index: January 2023 Highlights

Although not fully recovered, the travel industry gained substantial momentum at the start of the year. All regions have almost recovered from the pandemic blues, Asia Pacific being the only exception. With loosening travel restrictions and China reopening, we expect a stronger travel industry to be less uneven this year.
Saniya Zanpure |
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Skift Travel Health Index: December 2022 Highlights

Skift Research is cautiously optimistic about travel's continued recovery in 2023, despite a growing likelihood of a recession in many countries. Travel is still underindexed compared to the broader economy, and the reopening of Chinese borders provides a strong boost.
Wouter Geerts |
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Skift Travel Health Index: October 2022 Highlights

The final push to full travel industry recovery seems more stubborn than initially thought. Continuing uncertainties and headwinds suppressed growth in October, with the Skift Travel Health Index sitting around the 85% mark since June with little movement.
Wouter Geerts |
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Skift Travel Health Index: September 2022 Highlights

Newly released data is highlighting the shift away from Asia as the epicenter of travel, moving towards the Middle East and Europe. With China looking at its zero-Covid policy as the long-term solution to beating the pandemic, it will be interesting to see how long it takes for the pendulum to swing back.
Wouter Geerts |
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Skift Travel Health Index: August 2022 Highlights

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.
Wouter Geerts |
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Skift Travel Health Index: July 2022 Highlights

Asia Pacific still has the largest gap to pre-pandemic travel levels, but our back-of-the-envelope analysis shows that a return of Chinese travelers would pull many Asian countries back in the black. Now we just need to wait for the Chinese borders to reopen...
Wouter Geerts |
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Skift Travel Health Index: June 2022 Highlights

China is finally starting to recover, after months of decline amid renewed lockdowns. The overall Index dropped for the first time in 2022 though, as the mess at airports and airlines is catching up with the industry.
Wouter Geerts |

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