EU Plans to Lift Travel Restrictions for U.S. Tourists, says an article on CNN.
EU to welcome US tourists
New York and California reopen
To lift travel restrictions
The European Union’s governing body has recommended that the bloc lift restrictions on non-essential travel from 14 countries, including the US, a move that would allow visitors from these destinations to vacation in Europe far more easily.
The other countries to make the cut are: Albania, Australia, Israel, Japan, Lebanon, New Zealand, Republic of North Macedonia, Rwanda, Serbia, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, and China.
One country conspicuous by its absence is the UK, where things haven’t been going so well. Grand plans to lift the UK’s remaining Covid restrictions on June 21 have been delayed until July 19, due to rising cases of the Covid-19 Delta variant.
There’s also been a lot of confusion over the UK’s “traffic-light” system of travel regulations.
Open to fully vaccinated travelers
Elsewhere, Denmark has opened to fully vaccinated travelers from the UK and the US and its neighbor Norway is letting the fully vaccinated skip quarantine. The island of Cyprus is open to vaccinated travelers from 65 countries, including the US and the UK. Slovenia has also reopened to tourism with its own traffic light system and testing requirements.
The Netherlands is welcoming tourists from “safe countries with a low Covid-19 risk,” while Iceland, a member state of the European Economic Area, opened its borders to vaccinated travelers back in April.
Croatia is also welcoming vaccinated travelers, as well as those who present a negative PCR test or proof that they’ve recovered from Covid-19 within the past 180 days, and no less than 11 days before they arrive. The Isle of Man, a self-governing British Crown dependency in the Irish Sea, is reportedly on course to fully reopen its borders with the UK on June 28, having been closed to almost all non-residents since March 2020. That’s the same day as Switzerland hopes to reopen to vaccinated Americans.
Ireland, which has had one of Europe’s strictest lockdowns, will reopen to the EU, UK, and US on July 19. Non-EU unvaccinated travelers will have to arrive with a negative test, then self-quarantine until they take a second post-arrival test.
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Source: CNN
