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UK sends conflicting messages even as it begins lifting travel restrictions

May 17, 2021May 17, 2021 Mark Stachiew

Even as the United Kingdom lifts some of its restrictions on international travel Monday and thousands of travellers line up at airports across the country,

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Americans ready to fly, but not as keen on cruises and crowds: Survey

May 13, 2021May 13, 2021 Mark Stachiew

While many people never stopped travelling for pleasure during the pandemic, the vast majority of us have been stuck at our home base for more

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Should Canada adopt U.K.’s traffic-light system to re-start travel?

May 10, 2021May 10, 2021 Mark Stachiew

When the United Kingdom announced last week that it was dropping its blanket restrictions on international travel in favour of a traffic-light system with destinations

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Vaccinated people can travel internationally, but should they?

May 5, 2021May 5, 2021 Mark Stachiew

With more people around the world getting vaccinated against COVID-19, especially in richer countries like the United States and the United Kingdom, many of them

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Saluting our beleaguered travel agents on National Travel Advisors Day

May 3, 2021May 3, 2021 Mark Stachiew

The past year plus has been a hard one for the world’s travel agents so it seems fitting to tip our caps to them on

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Canadian travellers want vaccination passports, but they’ll have to wait

April 28, 2021April 28, 2021 Mark Stachiew

While  the European Union’s parliament debates its vaccine passport Wednesday, Canadian travellers are clamouring for similar documentation, but it seems that they’ll have to wait

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Canadian travellers skip hotel quarantine by crossing land border by taxi, but will the loophole last?

April 26, 2021April 26, 2021 Mark Stachiew

When Canada introduced mandatory hotel stays for arriving air passengers in February,  but not for land travellers, it quickly became obvious that people would exploit

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Voices grow louder to restrict inter-provincial travel in Canada during the third wave

April 15, 2021April 15, 2021 Mark Stachiew

Despite more Canadians being vaccinated, coronavirus variants are fueling a surge unlike any seen at any point in the pandemic which has some experts calling

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Mark Stachiew has been exploring the world and writing about it for more than 30 years. His travel stories have appeared in numerous newspapers, magazines and online publications in Canada, the United States and beyond.

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