The Ingredients for Seamless International Travel

In this latest episode in the occasional series of invited articles, Corinna Schindler, Global Vice President Business Line Verification from Veridos, sets out her reasons why only through cooperation and technology can international travellers get a truly ‘seamless’ experience.

Over the past 70 years growth in international air travel has occasionally been disrupted by serious economic setbacks or security crises – but never for long. Even after some of the most serious events, within just four years of the event, passenger numbers have consistently resumed their long-term trend of nearly doubling every 20 years. It is widely expected that exactly the same will be true of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Against this background of inexorable growth in passengers, therefore, the need to ensure their rapid and safe transit through airports has become an economic imperative for airport operators, airlines and governments.