Did you know that you can work remotely in Canada for up to six months? According to current Canadian laws, travelers with a tourist visa can work from the country and stay for up to 6 months. There’s been a new update issued on June 27th this year to remind foreign visitors that this is…
Bali Removes Vaccine Requirement Returning To Normal Tourism
In March 2020, the world toppled over as we knew it and chaos ensued when a virus rapidly spreading across the world was announced as a pandemic. Here we are in June 2023 where the tiring topic seems to never fully end. But hey, at least the store shelves are stocked with toilet paper. Most…
Colombia Drops Vaccine Requirement For All International Travelers
After three years of imposing strict health controls at its outer borders in a bid to keep COVID variants from being imported, Colombia has dropped the vaccine requirement, allowing all international travelers to visit without disclosing their immunization status. Authorities have silently removed all vaccine and most pandemic-related mandates affecting tourists seeking entry into the…
United States Drops Vaccine Requirement For International Travelers
The United States is finally joining the rest of the world in reopening without restrictions to all travelers, regardless of vaccination status. There are over 150 countries around the world that have dropped all COVID-19 entry restrictions, including vaccines and testing. But the United States was one of the last holdouts, barring unvaccinated international travelers…
EU Scraps Mobile Phone Airplane Mode Requirement
Airline mode restrictions will be removed, allowing passengers travelling inside the European Union (EU) to use their mobile devices fully. With the European Commission’s recent ruling, airlines may provide 5G technology on flights, freeing passengers from switching their phones to aeroplane mode. The BBC reports that in order to allow aeroplane use of 5G frequency…
Beijing Airport Drops COVID-19 Test Requirement
Beijing Capital International Airport, the busiest airport in China, no longer needs visitors to show a clean COVID-19 test result to board the plane, according to Reuters, citing Beijing News, a publication run by the Chinese Communist Party. On December 6, 2022, the requirement was removed. No guidance was provided on whether departing travellers from…
New Zealand Drops Vaccine Requirement For Travelers, Ditches Mask Mandates
New Zealand has officially decided to drop the vaccine requirement for international visitors, marking its end to some of the most stringent Covid rules in the world. Along with dropping the vaccine requirement, masks will no longer be mandatory in public. The official end to the vaccine requirement will come in about two weeks, on…
260 Companies Urge Biden To Remove Testing Requirement To Enter U.S.
The letter was signed by American Airlines, Delta Airlines, Hilton, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Disney, and other relevant businesses and organizations in the travel industry Over 260 companies from the tourism industry made an urgent call on Thursday to the Biden administration to remove covid testing measures for vaccinated travelers to enter the United…
Thailand lifts RT-PCR testing requirement for international travellers from 1 May
Confirmed by the Thailand Authority of Tourism (TAT) release , Thailand’s Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) has approved the lifting of the RT-PCR testing requirement for international arrivals beginning 1 May, 2022. The country has also introduced two new entry schemes specifically customised for vaccinated and unvaccinated travellers. They are as follows: New entry…
Walt Disney World Scraps Mask Requirement Across Parks
As Covid retreats and different countries move towards treating the virus as an endemic disease, several public and private entities have also started rolling back pandemic-era mandates. Now, it’s Walt Disney World’s turn to scrap mandatory mask usage across its parks. The popular holiday destination, which attracts millions of visitors every year, has been tilting…
