International travel and Covid 19

[Golfinho]

https://www.stlucia.org/en/covid-19/
I hope at least one person is finding these posts helpful. I'll post more updates as I find them.

Finding up-to-the-moment posts on country covid status all in one place would be too ideal.

Kayak is trying: https://www.kayak.com/travel-restrictions.

[The Cane]

Glad somebody here showed us this: https://www.iatatravelcentre.com/int...1580226297.htm.

[Quagmire1974]

Africa opening its airspace in July and August:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/a...19-cases-climb

Saint Lucia originally mandated that travelers needed to have a negative COVID-19 test result 48 hours before they arrived at the airport on the island. That time frame has now been extended to 7 days. Details on Saint Lucia's website:

https://www.stlucia.org/en/covid-19/

I hope at least one person is finding these posts helpful. I'll post more updates as I find them.

[Quagmire1974]

Fodor's Travel recently published an online article detailing the entry procedures for Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic. The article includes 28 nations in the Caribbean, Europe, Southeast Asia, Africa, Pacific, and Indian Ocean:

https://www.fodors.com/news/photos/a...-you-travel-to

[Quagmire1974]

Lonely Planet continues to update their website regarding international travel during the COVID-19 pandemic.

European Union lifts travel ban for 14 nations July 1. United States not included on list:

https://www.lonelyplanet.com/articles/eu-us-travel-ban

Caribbean nations continue to reopen for tourism. Common theme appears to be negative COVID-19 test 72 hours before you arrive:

https://www.lonelyplanet.com/article...-are-reopening

Belize reopening to tourism August 15. Very helpful chart included in story:

https://www.lonelyplanet.com/article...-belize-reopen

[Quagmire1974]

Aruba has announced that they will reopen for tourism and allow tourists from Canada and Europe to enter beginning July 1. Tourists from the United States will be allowed to enter beginning July 10. Details, including entry requirements and updated flight schedules, can be found here:

https://www.aruba.com/us

[Sammon]

Here's a tempting deal from Eithad Airways, buy a travel voucher from them before 24th June. It's good for travel anytime in the next two years and they will add 50% of the value to it for free when you book a flight. They do fly from the you. S, but this is probably more suitable for Far East and Africa mongering destinations from Europe.

Like most airlines they must need some cash flow, but as the flag carrier for you. A. E. Your money should be safe.

https://www.etihad.com/en-gb/book/sp...travel-voucher

They are one of the airlines slated to go belly up. Be careful.

[The Cane]

Lonely Planet, a travel website and online retailer of guidebooks and other travel accessories, has been steadily churning out information regarding the reopening of nations and territories in the current coronavirus pandemic. Within the past couple of days, they published a story that is quite appropriate for this forum:

https://www.lonelyplanet.com/article...l-restrictions

The map referenced in the article can be found here:

https://www.iatatravelcentre.com/int...1580226297.htm

To get the most recent coronavirus travel information, simply click or tap on a nation or territory on the map, and a separate box will pop up and give the latest information. To supplement the map, be sure to add Lonely Planet to your timeline on Facebook, as Lonely Planet is constantly providing information as to when nations and territories will open for international tourists.

Great resource! Thank you!

[Quagmire1974]

Lonely Planet, a travel website and online retailer of guidebooks and other travel accessories, has been steadily churning out information regarding the reopening of nations and territories in the current coronavirus pandemic. Within the past couple of days, they published a story that is quite appropriate for this forum:

https://www.lonelyplanet.com/article...l-restrictions

The map referenced in the article can be found here:

https://www.iatatravelcentre.com/int...1580226297.htm

To get the most recent coronavirus travel information, simply click or tap on a nation or territory on the map, and a separate box will pop up and give the latest information. To supplement the map, be sure to add Lonely Planet to your timeline on Facebook, as Lonely Planet is constantly providing information as to when nations and territories will open for international tourists.

[Mr Matrix]

Here's a tempting deal from Eithad Airways, buy a travel voucher from them before 24th June. It's good for travel anytime in the next two years and they will add 50% of the value to it for free when you book a flight. They do fly from the you. S, but this is probably more suitable for Far East and Africa mongering destinations from Europe.

Like most airlines they must need some cash flow, but as the flag carrier for you. A. E. Your money should be safe.

https://www.etihad.com/en-gb/book/sp...travel-voucher

[Zeos1]

I have been hoping to travel again. Like many others on this forum I'm sure. But.

Here's the deal as I am starting to see it. I'll just put it out to all of you. The last things to come back will be international travel. At least travel as we used to know it. Perhaps limited travel with extensive testing and 2 week plus quarantines, but not low cost available and open travel.

This is based on comments I'm hearing from experts, things like "if there's pockets of infection anywhere in the world it will get everywhere" And indeed that is how it got started, and how it spread.

So imagine a country, like New Zealand for example, that has almost no cases, in fact everyone that had it has recovered and they have no new cases coming on. Do you think they'll be anxious to open their airports to, for example, Americans? Or Brazilians? When they've spent huge amounts of their national treasury on stamping out the virus. And tourism is very important to their economy. But with the virus they have no economy, so the best bet is to keep out the potential infected people.

We have that already in Canada. We have provinces with no cases. Do you think they're interested in tourism from Ontario and Quebec. Not really.

And so with the places we love.

So, I'm not optimistic about travel any time soon. Until there is a very effective treatment, or until vaccination is almost universal (and we don't know if or when that will happen).

And so I'm trying to envision a retirement without travel, which for me is without sex to be blunt. Sucks. But that's how it feels to me. Guess I might have to try to work up some feelings of desire for those that might have me, grandmotherly types, whales, the twisted and entitled, and the like.

[Quagmire1974]

Here is an article from Lonely Planet detailing how and when some nations and territories in the Caribbean (Aruba, Saint Lucia, Bahamas, Antigua and Barbuda, Puerto Rico, Grenada) will open with the current COVID 19 situation:

https://www.lonelyplanet.com/article...ource=facebook

[Sky Ryder]

Airplanes don't make you sick ?


https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...u-sick-really/

Unless you spend your day in a surgical theater, I'd venture to say the air you breath on a commercial jet airplane will be the most germ free air you breathe all day.

[Sky Ryder]

Announced apparently that international travel to Colombia will not be allowed until after the end of August.

And perhaps similar with Argentina.

Argentina has already announced there will be no domestic or international flights in Argentina until the end of September. Of course it is Argentina we are talking about and things could change within the hour.

[Artisttyp]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/refuse-cr...205655785.html