Namibia is open to international travel – and it’s never been cheaper or quieter
International travel might currently feel like one of life’s forgotten luxuries, but you wouldn’t know it at Windhoek’s teeming Hosea Kutako International Airport early on a Monday morning. A packed EuroWings plane, delayed by two hours, has flown in directly from Frankfurt. The delay means its arrival clashes with that of a smaller, but also full, Airlink flight from Cape Town.
The Latest: Sri Lanka reopens tourism after 10-month closing
Sri Lanka is welcoming tourists again after keeping the doors closed to visitors for nearly 10 months due to the coronavirus pandemic. The government’s action Thursday is seen as an effort to revive the island nation’s tourism industry, which has been badly hit by the pandemic. Tourism accounts for about 5% of Sri Lanka’s economy and before the pandemic employed 250,000 people directly and up to 3 million indirectly.
BERMUDA COVID-19 ENTRY REQUIREMENTS FOR TRAVELERS
Bermuda, an island nation only a 2.5-hour flight from New York, is allowing tourists back to its beaches, however with some of the strictest testing rules we've seen. While Bermuda is often thought of when day-dreaming of vacationing in the Caribbean, it's actually located off the Carolina's in the Atlantic Ocean all by itself.