While several countries in Europe are beginning to lift COVID-19 restrictions ahead of the peak summer tourism, Portugal has extended its entry ban on countries with high infection rates.

The Dutch are currently gauging whether travel is feasible during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Travellers can start planning trips to Greece once again as the country aims to reopen its borders to all international visitors.

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Thousands of curious onlookers have flocked to an erupting volcano in Iceland to marvel at the hypnotic display of glowing red lava, the bravest of them grilling hot dogs and marshmallows over the smoldering embers.

Travel-starved South Africans are settling on the Maldives as a destination of choice for an idyllic escape from all things COVID.

In a recent travel survey on the impact of the pandemic, most respondents said they wanted to travel again internationally in 2021.

The Spanish government has once again extended its travel ban on international visitors from South Africa, Brazil and the UK.

Industry experts are warning that these restrictions are likely to continue after Pretoria announced last week that it will not use the Oxford/Astrazeneca Covid-19 vaccines.

The World Travel and Tourism Council wants testing measures for individual travellers instead of imposing travel bans on entire nations.

Europol said fraudsters were caught selling bogus Covid-19 test documents, faking the name of a genuine laboratory on the false certificates.

The country has imposed even stricter border controls for all arrivals from non-EU countries.

Rafael Nadal will try to overtake Roger Federer’s Grand Slam record without his coach Carlos Moya who will not attend the Australian Open.

The slow rollout will affect South Africans’ ability to visit other countries, where vaccination may become an entry requirement.

Discovery of the new strain of coronavirus has resulted in additional border closures and flight bans.

Switzerland says it has authorised a temporary exemption from its general flight ban on SA and the UK due to the new coronavirus variant in the two countries.

The tourism minister has agreed to excuse legitimate travellers who infringe curfew regulations due to flight times.

Since the 1980s, tourism chiefs have marketed the Arctic Circle town of Rovaniemi as the ‘real’ home of Santa Claus, helping Finnish Lapland attract a record 2.9 million overnight stays in 2019. But this year, Santa’s grotto has an empty echo to it…