People are open to stringent screening if this means they are able to travel again

Would you be ready to undergo stringent screening, tracking and testing procedures if it meant you could travel again?

If so, you aren't alone.

A new survey by Global Rescue has discovered that travellers are more willing to accept measures they could previously have found objectionable, if this means they can get back in the air.

Out of the 1,300 respondents, 91 per cent said they might be ready to subject themselves to screening and testing; 73 % were ready to disclose medical conditions linked to a compromised disease fighting capability; 93 per cent were ready to share their past 14-day travel history; and 58 % were willing to have their physical location tracked and traced, regardless if that data was temporarily retained.

Many travellers are preparing to hit the road again this summer plus they are willing to share personal health background and travel plans

The survey also offered an insight into when persons likely to travel again.

It showed people were relatively optimistic about a return to some sort of normalcy: 41 per cent expected to make their next trip by July at the latest; 77 % thought they would have the ability to take a trip by the end of October; and 36 per cent were planning their initial trip sometime between August and October.

Less than 9 per cent of people thought their earliest post-pandemic trip will be in November or December, while significantly less than 7 per cent likely to make their first trip between January and March 2021.

Only 7 % predicted their next trip wouldn't normally be until sometime after April 2021.

“Many travellers are preparing to hit the road again this summer plus they are willing to share personal health background and travel plans to keep themselves and those around them safe,” says Dan Richards, chief executive of Global Rescue, a provider of medical, security, evacuation and travel risk management services.

Respondents also revealed their travel priorities in a post-Covid-19 world, and what their plans were for their first post-lockdown journeys.

Twice as many persons intend to take domestic trips, over international, as their first trip.

Nearly 75 % of men and women said their initial trips will be family vacations, leisure trips to go to friends, or destination getaways. Less than 10 % expected their first trips to be for business only.