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coronavirus ’
Feb 2nd, 2021 |
By The Editor
Last week the Tanzanian president said that vaccines may be part of a foreign plot to spread illness and steal Africa’s wealth.
Posted in Travel destinations |
Comments Off on Holidaying in Tanzania
Tags: coronavirus, Tanzania, Tanzania - tourism
Dec 21st, 2020 |
By The Editor
At some point may be some countries will allow movement but it will probably be too little to save Christmas travel for many tens of thousands of people.
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on Crushing Christmas travel
Tags: coronavirus, travel lockdowns
Dec 4th, 2020 |
By The Editor
The tourism minister of Thailand, has announced that the virtual closure of its borders to overseas visitors has been extended to 31st March 2021.
Posted in Travel destinations |
Comments Off on No winter holiday in Thailand
Tags: coronavirus, Thai entry restrictions, Thailand
Oct 31st, 2020 |
By The Editor
According to Professor McKee of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, holidaymakers are to blame for the upturn in coronavirus cases.
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on We are to blame
Tags: coronavirus, COVID-10, Prof Martin McKee, travel as a coronavirus spreader
Oct 29th, 2020 |
By The Editor
The obvious thing for it to do would be to extend its protection on vouchers issued up until just after Easter
Posted in Travel rumblings |
Comments Off on Giving confidence
Tags: ATOL protection, CAA, coronavirus, holiday refund vouchers
Oct 11th, 2020 |
By The Editor
Science drives my thinking too and my thinking is I am too confused by all this creation of confusion to do anything about travelling at all.
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on Who isn’t confused?
Tags: coronavirus, PCR testing, quarantine rules, travel limitations
Oct 10th, 2020 |
By The Editor
Either you want visitors in which case you have to make travel and entry a little easier or you refuse entry to visitors for a bit longer.
Posted in Travel rumblings |
Comments Off on Fancy Mauritius? Then face the hurdles
Tags: coronavirus, Dominica, entry requirements, Mauritius
Oct 1st, 2020 |
By The Editor
When we last conducted this survey at the end of May, the response was so significant that other travel and news publications ran the story.
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on Has COVID-19 affected your travel plans?
Tags: coronavirus, holiday plans, University of Westminster
Oct 1st, 2020 |
By The Editor
But from now on it has become doubly important that you check your policies to make sure that you are covered for at least the following which all related to the coronavirus;
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on Renewing travel insurance
Tags: coronavirus, travel insurance, travel insurance coronavirus cover
Sep 26th, 2020 |
By The Editor
IATA believes that testing all airline passengers would grow passenger confidence and thus bolster international travel which at present is 92% down on 2019.
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on Testing all airline passengers
Tags: airport passenger testing, coronavirus, IATA, World Aviation Festival
Sep 15th, 2020 |
By The Editor
Politicians have to find a way to marry the movement of people at the same time as protecting them from the pandemic.
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on Can travel be saved?
Tags: airlines, coronavirus, cruise companies, future of travel, lockdowns, quarantine restrictions, tour operators
Sep 12th, 2020 |
By The Editor
Do you remember the good old days when you booked a trip and an hour after landing you had your feet up on a sun lounger?
Posted in Travel destinations |
Comments Off on Is travelling getting to be a chore?
Tags: coronavirus, Dominica, Dominican Republic, entry requirements
Sep 11th, 2020 |
By The Editor
The good news is that Sweden has been taken off the quarantine list so you can now travel there without the need to self-isolate
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Weekly holiday review 11th September 2020
Tags: Barbados, China, coronavirus, England, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Norther n Ireland, Scotland, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Turkey, UK, Wales
Sep 7th, 2020 |
By The Editor
So far British holidaymakers have really only been considering the rules imposed by the UK and the devolved nations. We need to start watching the reactions of other countries to what is happening in the UK.
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on Could the UK be placed on more red lists?
Tags: coronavirus, UK
Sep 3rd, 2020 |
By The Editor
The problem is that there are more than one test so make sure you get the correct one otherwise you might be placed in quarantine
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on Get the right test
Tags: antibody test, antigen test, coronavirus, PCR tests
Aug 22nd, 2020 |
By The Editor
In many ways, Portugal could turn out to be a winner for tourism over the next few months.
Posted in Travel destinations |
Comments Off on Portugal opens – at speed!
Tags: Algarve, Azores, coronavirus, Madeira, Portugal
Aug 17th, 2020 |
By The Editor
The opening date has been postponed again but this time no future date has been suggested.
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Stricter controls at Machu Picchu
Tags: coronavirus, Machu Picchu, Peru
Aug 14th, 2020 |
By The Editor
The big news of the week, as if I need to tell you, is that as of 4am tomorrow, you will need to go into a 14-day quarantine on returning from France, Malta and the Netherlands and the Turks & Caicos Islands.
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Weekly holiday review 14th August 2020
Tags: Cayman Islands, coronavirus, Egypt, France, Greece, lockdown easing, Northern Ireland, spain, Tunisia
Aug 13th, 2020 |
By The Editor
What I do question is the role played by the holidaymaker.
Posted in Travel rumblings |
Comments Off on Holiday cases of the virus
Tags: beach holidays and coronavirus, coronavirus, ECDC
Aug 7th, 2020 |
By The Editor
Our weekly catch up of how the virus is affecting countries we can visit
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Weekly holiday review 7th August 2020
Tags: coronavirus, lockdown easing
Jul 31st, 2020 |
By The Editor
As we foretold earlier this week, each Friday for the next few weeks Just about Travel will look at some favourite holiday destinations overseas. The purpose is to see whether the number of cases of COVID-19 is increasing and thus might be liable to being placed on the UK government’s “don’t travel” list. The measure we are using is the 14-day cumulative number of COVID-19 cases per 100 000 as revealed by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control website (https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/cases-2019-ncov-eueea. We could talk
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Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Weekly holiday review 31st July 2020
Tags: coronavirus, lockdown easing
Jul 30th, 2020 |
By The Editor
Some medical experts have urged people to use their own transport rather than public transport so what’s a person to do?
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on What’s a person to do?
Tags: coronavirus, own vehicles, Public transport
Jul 15th, 2020 |
By The Editor
Now that Britons are free to travel to Greece what might we expect?
Posted in Travel destinations |
Comments Off on What to expect in Greece
Tags: coronavirus, Greece, Kathimerini, travel restrictions
Jul 14th, 2020 |
By The Editor
The idea is that we travel safely to return safely and not to spend time in clinics, medical practices or hospitals because we thought we could never catch the destructive coronavirus.
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Travel Safe
Tags: coronavirus, Travel Safely
Jun 18th, 2020 |
By The Editor
The Australian tourism minister yesterday said that the Australian border might stay closed until next year for short term visitors.
Posted in Travel destinations |
Comments Off on Forget Australia this year?
Tags: Australia, Beijing, coronavirus, coronavirus second wave, New Zealand, Qantas, South Korea
Jun 14th, 2020 |
By The Editor
I have talked myself around to saying there will be a summer international tourism season but It might exclude places such as those where the numbers are still increasing.
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on Overseas holidays – yes or no?
Tags: coronavirus, coronavirus second wave, overseas summer holidays 2020, travel bubbles, travel corridors
Jun 12th, 2020 |
By The Editor
How does tourism develop after the virus yet not plunge the world into a second wave?
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on Global travel is a cause of the virus spread
Tags: coronavirus, Dr Anthony Fauci, global tourism, tourism as a coronavirus conduit
Jun 10th, 2020 |
By The Editor
What B&B, guesthouse and hotel in the UK can call itself one of the best if it has no Marmite on the breakfast table?
Posted in Travel rumblings |
Comments Off on Calamity – another shortage
Tags: coronavirus, Marmite, Marmite shortage, Unilever, yeast extract