Following public outrage and recent protests, Chinese authorities announced easing COVID-19 restrictions in several major cities from Saturday, Dec. 4, 2022.
Taiwan is considering an end to its quarantine requirement for all arrivals in mid-October, as the East Asian economy moves to dismantle some of the last pandemic-related border restrictions still in place globally.
From April 01, 2022, all fully vaccinated travelers visiting Korea will be exempted from staying in isolation (7days currently).
New Zealand on Wednesday announced to reduce the isolation period for COVID-19 infected persons and close contacts from 10 to seven days.
Indonesia will reopen Bali to all foreign visitors starting Feb. 4, this time requiring a shorter quarantine period as the country seeks to revive tourism and sustain economic recovery.
Starting from February 1, travel within the EU may become easier after member states agreed to new non-binding travel rules.
The UK eases travel restrictions for both vaccinated and unvaccinated travelers from February 2022.
Effective 13 Jan. 2022, the Malaysian government announced new entry regulations and procedures for travelers.
Testing and border measures are changing for fully eligible fully vaccinated travelers arriving in England. The travel industry has welcomed the scrapping of pre-departure tests for people traveling to England.
Unvaccinated travelers from the United States will be required to quarantine for 10 days upon their arrival in France as the French authorities have added the US to the COVID-19 red list of countries.
The French government on Thursday banned nonessential travel to and from Britain and tightened testing requirements for travelers due to the rise in Omicron cases.
UK Government announced that all 11 countries on the UK red list are removed from 4 am Wednesday 15 December as Omicron spreads in countries around the world.
One out of five destinations continues to have their borders completely closed as new surges of COVID-19 impact the restart of international tourism and the European Union is preparing new rules for safe travels.
From Singapore and Malaysia to Thailand, Vietnam, and Cambodia, borders are starting to reopen after months of pandemic-induced restrictions and lockdowns.
Thailand will let vaccinated visitors from 46 countries without entering COVID-19 quarantine from next month, up from 10
Visitors from 10 low-risk countries will not be required to undergo isolation on arrival from November 1, 2021.
From 11 October, the United Kingdom will reduce the red list to 7 countries and proof of vaccination will be recognized from 37 new countries and territories.
Effective from October 7, 2021, the Caribbean island of Nevis reduced its Vacation in Place quarantine for fully vaccinated international air travelers from four (4) days to 24 hours.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) reported that air travelers are increasingly frustrated with the COVID-19 travel restrictions.
Following the removal of the U.S. from the E.U.'s safe travel list, Bulgaria, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Sweden
The German government has placed the United States, Turkey, and Israel as high-risk countries.
New Zealand government announced that from 11:59pm (NZT) July 23, Australians will no longer be able to enter New Zealand quarantine-free.
Fully vaccinated UK residents arriving in England from amber travel list destinations will no longer have to quarantine starting from 19 July.
Hawaii's Governor David Ige announced on June 4 that starting June 15, all inter-county travel restrictions will be dropped.
The Republic of Turkey has updated its country entry requirements effective as of June 1, 2021. The following decisions have been taken by the official authorities.
The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) provides the following updates on Phuket’s announcement to relax the COVID-19 restrictions and entry measures from 1 June, 2021.
The Icelandic government has announced that all those who have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 will be allowed to travel to Iceland without being subject to border measures, such as testing and quarantine.
SITA today announces the launch of Health Protect – an industry solution, to help airlines, airports,
Greece’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) announced the extension of non-essential travel restriction for domestic flights until Monday, February 8, 2021 at 06:00 am. in order to protect passengers and citizens from COVID-19 disease.