Travelers are itching to visit the US when the country opens its borders to vaccinated arrivals in November. Here's what they need to know to navigate the sometimes confusing rules and changes they'll face when they get there.
Trip planning is already in the works, too: According to newly released data from, user searches for all US-bound international flights rose by 27% on September 20, the date of the announcement, from the day prior, while searches for flights from Europe to the US spiked 68%.
On the ground, safety and health regulations that vary wildly from sea to shining sea are all but guaranteed to generate confusion."As Europeans, when we think of the US, we think of one big country," said Catherine Chaulet, a Boston-based French-American dual citizen who's president and CEO of"And the reality is, it is many different states with many different personalities, and it will show in health and sanitation protocols more than ever.
Incoming travelers must be"fully vaccinated," which according to US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention includes those who have received vaccines approved for use in the US as well as those listed for emergency use by the World Health Organization that may not yet have received such approval in the US, such as the AstraZeneca vaccine.
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