Travel during the COVID-19 pandemic

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts” – Mark Twain

Mr Hudson likes reading Mark Twain so much because he shows us how travel can liberate the mind, calm the soul, and make us more accepting and caring people — particularly in challenging circumstances.

Twain, in fact, took many of the trips that served as the fodder for some of the greatest pieces in literature during some of the toughest times his country ever faced. He moved west across the country all through the American Civil War, and then went to Europe to write his best-selling novel “The Innocents Abroad” in the heat of post-war Reconstruction.

Travel in hard times, it turns out, can not just be an escape but also a way to see the world differently, allowing us to appreciate our differences and similarities more carefully.

While we can’t help you write the great pandemic travel novel, we can help you answer the practical questions so you can start dreaming again. Mr Hudson also is very excited to be designing trips for pioneers like you that want to navigate uncertainty, rather than avoid it.

Talk to us, ask us how we can help, because we’re as eager as you are to continue broadening horizons for the entire Mr Hudson community.

With the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic seemingly behind us, explorers around the globe are now looking forward to the summer months in the hope that they might still be able to satisfy their wanderlust and reclaim their place in the sun. With major tourist destinations expected to reopen over the next few weeks, expectations are again on the rise that summer 2020 may not be solely made up of backyard barbecues and picnics in the park. Mr Hudson has been tracing travel restrictions and has created the below list, outlining which country borders are set to open and when.

Last updated: July 28

Aircraft are flying again on a few international routes, creating a possible path to recovery for a battered industry. But with the virus still spreading, aspiring travellers will have to navigate a patchy network that might include COVID-19 tests and periods of quarantine. This is why some countries are working on creating so-called  ‘travel bubbles’, or corridors, that will allow the quarantine-free flow of people between them. Examples of such Corona Corridors include:

– Australia and New Zealand
– The Baltic States: Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia
– Bulgaria, Serbia and Greece
– China and South Korea
– Costa Rica and Panamá
– The Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia
– Greece, Cyprus and Israel