“Revenge” is not exactly a word that makes sense alongside travel, but eager tourists are enjoying the trendy phrase as it reflects the overwhelming need to make up for lost time.
The UK’s “kneejerk” reaction to the detection of the Omicron COVID-19 variant in South African labs has caused chaos for those wanting to travel this holiday season.
Since the detection of a new COVID-19 variant in South Africa, various countries have put travel restrictions in place.
Two island holiday destinations, Thailand and Mauritius, as well as the Netherlands, are now open to South African citizens again, with only some restrictions set in place.
Ireland has dropped the mandatory quarantine policy for travellers coming from countries on their high-risk list, which has opened up a bit of a loophole.
Last week, the UK announced that South Africa would remain on its travel ‘red list’. The reasoning doesn’t hold up under basic scrutiny.
There’s a scheduled change for the UK’s “traffic light” system pending, and it could spell great news for South Africans who want to travel to and from the UK.
The mega-wealthy have, for all intents and purposes, been having a smashing time during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The petition to get South Africa off of the UK’s red list needed 10 000 signatures to force the UK government to respond, with that number already comfortably exceeded.
South Africa’s economy is losing out on millions of rands every day that the country remains on the UK’s ‘red list’.
South Africans are still on the UK’s red list, which means there are really strict (and very costly) travel requirements for Saffas touching down.
South Africans were the most restricted travellers in the world at the beginning of this year. For vaccinated South Africans, international travel is now opening bit by bit.
The UK has loosened its COVID-19 restrictions from today, which means more socialising, hugging, and travelling for the Brits going forward.
South Africa has revised the number of countries allowed to visit, with more than half removed from the ‘high-risk’ category.