Original title: The United States relaxes travel restrictions in 50 countries, and the dawn of a global unblocking?
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The US State Department announced plans to revise its travel advice ratings for dozens of countries, including its neighbors Canada and Mexico.Although the border between the United States and Canada may be closed until September, the US State Department has decided to lower its travel alert level from level 4 to level 3, which may have a significant impact on tourism around the world.
In April of this year, the United States rated 150 of the 209 countries as “Level Four: Do Not Travel.” Today, the number of countries with the highest level of warning has dropped to 125.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has also relaxed the recommendation level for travel in the United States from level 4 to level 3. The level 3 recommendation is to ensure that all vaccinations have been completed before travel. The recommendation at level 4 is to avoid going to such destinations. As restrictions have begun to relax, air travel indicators have begun to rebound. As of the end of May, the US Federal Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced that it had screened nearly 2 million air passengers, the highest number since the beginning of the epidemic.
The news that the U.S. plans to abandon travel restrictions boosted U.S. airline stocks. Hawaiian Airlines rose more than 10% during the session.West Sky Airlines、Delta Airlines、southern AirlineRose more than 2%,Southwest AirlinesUp 1.65%, the U.S.United AirlinesRose 1.34%.
The United States is not the only North American country that eases travel restrictions. Yesterday, it was reported that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau planned to lift travel restrictions on vaccinated tourists. Trudeau said a 75% vaccination rate is a key threshold for reopening the border.
According to data tracked by the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., more than 60% of Canadians received the first dose of the vaccine, and about 8% of them were fully vaccinated. According to Bloomberg Vaccine Tracker data, in the United States, 51.6% of people received the first dose of the vaccine, and 42.1% received two doses. The cases in both countries have dropped significantly.
According to the US State Department, after the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revised the implementation method of travel health notices, the State Department is updating the travel advice rating.
According to reports, a person familiar with the matter, who asked not to be named, said that the government is planning to relax the 14-day quarantine period for travelers who have received two doses of the vaccine. However, passengers entering Canada will still undergo nucleic acid testing and may be required to undergo a shorter period of isolation. It is worth noting that these recommendations are not mandatory, but they do help airlines set their own travel restrictions. Other countries usually receive American travelers based on the recommended ratings of the United States.
Europe certainly welcomes this decision. At present, Europe has relaxed restrictions, allowing vaccinated Americans to travel to the European continent. In a few days, U.S. President Biden will visit Britain to participate in the G7 meeting, and Vice President Kamala Harris will visit Mexico. Airlines and some countries have been complaining that the current travel restrictions on the United States are too strict, and the vaccination rate has risen, and the threat of contracting the new crown has been reduced.
Therefore, Canada and the United States are facing increasing pressure. The outside world strongly urges the two countries to relax the travel restrictions imposed since March last year, otherwise the agreement to restrict non-essential travel will expire on June 21. These restrictions have hit Canada’s tourism and aviation industries particularly severely: It is estimated that the loss of revenue to these industries last year was about 20 billion Canadian dollars (16.5 billion US dollars). Before the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, Canadians traveled to the United States by car more than 1 million times a day on average every month. In the past 12 months, that number has dropped to 100,000.
In addition, in Europe, considering the stability of the epidemic within the EU, the increase in vaccine production capacity and the number of inoculations, and the severe shrinkage of the tourism economy of some member states, calls within the EU for the EU’s overall coordination and conditional opening are getting higher and higher.The permanent representatives of the EU member states to the EU have unanimously agreed that it will be conditionally open to international travelers before the summer.
Whether it is the European Union, the United States, or Canada, boosting the tourism industry is a priority for economic recovery, and all parties hope to “seize the opportunity.”In addition, multinational tourism companies have also responded to the recovery policies of various governments. The two major international cruise giants Royal Caribbean and Carnival announced earlier that, with the permission of the US CDC, they are expected to restart cruises on US routes at the end of June and July, respectively.
(Source: Golden Ten Data)
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