Some Hotels Are Mandating Vaccines. Will Others Follow?

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Some Hotels Are Mandating Vaccines. Will Others Follow?

As travelers prepare for their next vacation, among the essentials to take along — like a toothbrush, wallet and phone charger — could be proof of vaccination for Covid-19, depending on where they are booked to sleep.

As coronavirus cases surge again across the country, driven by the highly contagious Delta variant, a small number of hotels in the United States have announced that they will require proof of vaccination from guests and staff.

Accommodations such as PUBLIC Hotel, Equinox Hotel and Wythe Hotel, all in New York City, Urban Cowboy Lodge in Big Indian, N.Y., a hamlet in the Catskill Mountains, and Pilgrim House in Provincetown, Mass., are among the first in the United States to announce that they will require evidence of vaccination, via a physical card or a digital verification, from their guests.

The precedent for hotels requiring vaccination is already being set beyond the

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Passengers carried luggage at the Barcelona airport, Spain, Friday, July 9, 2021. — Credit…Joan Mateu/Associated Press

The European Union is set to advise member states that they should reintroduce travel restrictions for visitors from the United States, three E.U. officials said on Sunday, as coronavirus infections and hospitalizations have surged in the U.S. in recent weeks.

Starting Monday, the officials said, the United States will be removed from a “safe list” of countries whose residents can travel to the 27-nation bloc without additional restrictions, such as quarantine and testing requirements. The suggested restrictions, made by the European Council, will not be mandatory for member countries, and it will remain up to those countries to decide whether or not to impose them.

Most European countries reopened

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Travel to France: Which COVID-19 Vaccines Are Recognized as Proof of Immunity

Allowing entry for vaccinated travellers has grow to be the most typical and acceptable reality of this summer time, really in another way compared to April 2020 when SchengenVisaInfo.com reported that a vaccine would for sure come to be necessary for these wishing to vacation through the Schengen Spot as soon as it is permitted and readily available. At the time, the notion was broadly criticised and doubted.

But, getting vaccinated from COVID-19, and getting vaccinated with a single of the vaccines recognized as legitimate evidence of immunity by a location country, have in some cases turned out to be two distinctive things for some travellers.

Travellers’ exhilaration for the reopening of borders across the European Union Member States, in certain for individuals vaccinated, has not long ago been extinguished by the reality that some of the countries in the block settle for only a minimal selection of COVID-19 vaccines