Is there any website or service for showing countries / regions open for travel during Covid-19 restrictions?
As countries and regions open up from lockdown, I was wondering if there's an online tool that can highlight which places a person is free to travel to based on:
- Passports held
- Current residency / residency status
- Destination country / region
- Transit countries
- Local restrictions at destination (e.g., is it essential travel only, Covid-19 testing requirements, are hotels open or is it living with family only)
Best Answer
As far as I know, such website / database / service covering your five points doesn't exist.
For your first 4 points, one typically resort at manually going through https://www.iatatravelcentre.com/international-travel-document-news/1580226297.htm and ideally trying to double check the information with the country's websites and airlines, which is error-prone and inefficient. For your last point, see Where can I find an up-to-date list of COVID-19-related curfews and business closures in different countries?. Interestingly, even though travel-related businesses are sinking, they often don't try much to make it easier for the few remaining travelers to navigate through covid-19 restrictions.
To make it even trickier, a country may have different covid-19 rules for different areas, e.g. When flying domestically in Thailand, which (origin airport, destination airport) results in a quarantine?.
Also, https://www.restrictions.info/ (mirror):
And https://www.worldnomads.com/travel-safety/worldwide/worldwide-travel-alerts (mirror).
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Kayak has published an interactive map to show which countries are open.
The map (as of 2nd July 2020):
And this is what the colour codes mean:
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