DAILY UPDATE: Timeline of countries’ reopening to international tourists

After months of lockdown, countries are slowly opening their borders to international tourists. Whether we have flattened the curve or found a way around it, there is no doubt that the travel is on everyone’s bucket list right now after spending weeks in isolation.

However, travel may not look the same as we know it as we continue to adapt to the “new normal” to ensure our health and safety.  For the past months, tourism boards and organisations are hard at work in formulating working guidelines to make travel safer.

Below is a timeline of the countries welcoming back tourists in its shores.

May

11 – Croatia

12 – Algarve, Portugal

22 – Bulgaria

25 – Hungary

June

1 – Estonia

1 – Lithuania

1 – US Virgin Islands

3 – Italy

4 – Antigua and Barbuda

4 – St. Lucia

5 – Turks and Caicos

13 – Poland

15 – Aruba

15 – Belgium

15 – Denmark

15 – France

15 – Germany

15 – Greece

15 – Iceland

15 – Netherlands

15 – Jamaica

15 – Switzerland

21 – Spain

July

1 – The Bahamas

1 – Dominican Republic

1 – Maldives

1 – Madeira Islands

15 – French Polynesia

August

1 – Israel

1 – Sri Lanka

15 – Belize