On Thursday Joey Pham, an American tourist, arrived in Malta after sending an email to the government to make sure he understood: that Malta is open to U. S. citizens, despite the ban in Europe. It’s 14 days before we get to a safe country.
As Malta Airport has made clear.
According to existing public aptitude regulations: “People who have resided in one of the countries included in the index are allowed to travel for at least 14 days before the date of their trip,” he says. Otherwise, “Traveling from a country included in the list is allowed Array. . “
While the maximum EU sets a ban on tourists from all countries that are not on the EU’s “whitelist,” Malta does so differently.
“I was quite surprised to hear this about Malta because it was Schengen,” Pham says. “I learned this from a network of travelers. I also went to Croatia, it was relatively simple with my check in hand. But since there were no direct flights from there to Malta, I transited through Italy. (Italy, to be clear, would not have left it as a US tourist in principle, maximum of EU countries allow transit).
This means that tourists from the United States and others can arrive in Malta after a fortnight in any of the 50 countries of the indexed rooms on the Visit Malta website. If so, it is a country that welcomes Americans, such as Croatia or Turkey.
The Maltese deputy prime minister obviously sets the rules:
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“Any user, adding a Maltese citizen or a user with a valid apartment permit, who lives in a country room for 14 days or more Array . . . there is no ban on those countries. “
I won the same reaction as Pham from the government’s ‘COVID-19 reaction team’: malta, even by air, is allowed as long as any transit also passes through a country in the corridor.
“Once this purpose is achieved, you will be able to travel to Malta without having to quarantine or comply with any other medical protocol. “
Of course, with the opening of the EU’s internal borders, road travel is easy for a US passport holder, once they arrive in Europe, that is, to the few countries that open to them.
But the Malta technique is rare and it also allows you to fly. “There are no direct flights,” says James Debono of Malta Today. “And I have the impression that it is not allowed between Malta and the United States. “
But the countries in the corridor do.
Pham, 30, and her Chinese friend were scheduled to spend a cruise in March from Florida, but the day they landed in Miami from New York, she said, “President Trump interrupted all cruise ships. “Instead, they embarked on what has been rather a flash since . . . tourists from all over the world in the time of Covid.
“We moved to Costa Rica. I closed their borders a few days after our arrival, so we sat down for a while. Then we tried to move to China, but on our flight from San Diepass to Japan, China announced the closure of So we stayed in Japan, then returned to the United States and spent time with families from Oklahoma and Texas.
In July, the couple flew back to Turkey. After a period of stay of up to a month, they flew to Croatia. “It is believed that both went through the Maltese authorities,” says Pham, a former investment banker who has been making a travel investment lately.
Pham sees this trend growing as he continues his fearless adventures: “More and more EU countries, such as Malta, are increasingly visiting American tourists. They don’t come directly, if you can still catch a flight, but from other safe runners. “
The irony is that Malta has the infection rate of Covid in the EU after Spain. The 14-day trend is 114 cases consisting of 100,000 inhabitants.
“It’s safe,” Pham concedes.
As the spread worsens, from Friday, a negative result in Covid control will be mandatory for passengers from Spain (Barcelona, Madrid, Girona), Romania and Bulgaria.
It is a situation that is developing across Europe and safe corridors can be minimized as Covid returns.
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I have 3 decades of experience as a journalist, foreign correspondent and travel writer-photographer. I work for print, virtual and radio media on 4 continents, I am also an experienced hotel journalist and writer of travel guides and cultural histories in Australia, France. , Italy, Spain, Switzerland and Borneo. Very on the road between my bases in Paris and Australia, I write for Forbes with a globetrotting attitude and a topicality in travel, culture, hospitality, art and architecture. My hobby is to capture the unique people, situations and occasions I encounter along the way, whether in words or images. I have a degree in professional writing from the University of Canberra, a master’s degree in European journalism from Robert Schuman University in Strasbourg and a member of the Society of American Travel Writers: Love for My Wild Local Island of Tasmania fuels my commitment to sustainable travel and conservation.