Travel Restrictions Force Tour Operators to Run More Single-Country Trips
Photo Credit: An image from Germany, where some Dutch have gone to escape lockdown. Wikimedia Commons / Sergey Ashmarin
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Considering how much the appetite for single-country trips has grown in recent years, why go through the constant hassles of grappling with widely divergent protocols and testing requirements in a Covid era?
The large number of travel restrictions enacted in the wake of Omicron killed any chance of a significant boost tour operators — many of which haven’t fully recovered since the start of the pandemic — were expecting in the new year.
But those curbs are also accelerating a trend in the travel industry: tour operators increasingly taking their clients on single-country trips. As destinations worldwide have enacted Covid protocols that often vastly differ from those of their neighbors, tour operators are running more single-country trips to avoid the hassles of dealing with the different requirements they might encounter.
“With Covid, there is no global consistency around testing, vaccines, and quarantin
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