Traveling to Europe This Summer? A Maze of Rules Awaits You.
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Here's your money briefing for Wednesday, June 30th. I'm J.R. Whalen for The Wall Street Journal. Planning an overseas trip this summer? Getting your COVID-19 shots is the easy part. The hard part is sorting through all the rules that countries have put in place, like who can enter and who has to quarantine.
People who haven't traveled since the beginning of the outbreak or even longer, you know, are now returning to what is essentially a very different form of travel with different documentation, different requirements.
Ben Katz covers aviation for the WSJ. Coming up, we'll ask him what Americans traveling to Europe need to prepare for. That's after the break.
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After a year and a half of lockdowns and restrictions, Americans are aching to travel. But planning a trip overseas is going to require some homework. The rules for travel in Europe are changing, and trying to book a trip can get confusing. Our aviation reporter Ben Katz has been keeping tabs on this, and he's here to walk us through all the changes. Ben, thanks for being with us.
Of course, thanks for having me.
So, you know, Ben, we've heard a lot about world economies relying on tourism to ramp back up, but it seems that governments aren't all on the same page about what should be allowed. Can you just explain that?
What travel rules are confusing Americans planning summer trips to Europe?
Yes, absolutely. We're seeing governments from around the world kind of scrambling to put together methods for how to reopen their borders. And this question of a vaccine passport or having to carry proof of vaccination is becoming quite a contentious matter. In the US, the Biden administration has been quite reluctant to tie travel or the reopening of travel to proof of vaccination. But meanwhile, in places like the EU, where freedom of movement between member states is seen as a fundamental right, it's much higher priority. And we're kind of seeing these points as governments try to figure out exactly what the best mechanism is for allowing their borders to reopen potentially to vaccinated passengers.
And that's the aviation industry's concern is that people who haven't traveled, right, they haven't traveled since the beginning of the outbreak or even longer, you know, are now returning to what is essentially a very different form of travel with different documentation, different requirements. And they really think that it's critical that, you know, there's a uniform process so that, you know, whether you're arriving in Greece or in Spain or in, you know, or in Germany, that the experience is the same. And that everybody has the documents they need and are confident in their ability to actually enter the country that they're traveling to. So, yeah, so there's a lot of questions on how the EU system is going to be rolled out.
People are looking at it as one of the first in the world to implement, you know, a cross-border system that will allow travel for vaccinated passengers.
Now that's the EU, but of course the UK is not part of the European Union.
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