Europe tells tourists: Welcome back! Now work out the rules

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Europe is opening up to Americans and other visitors after more than a year of Covid-induced restrictions, in hope of luring back tourists and their dollars to the continent's trattorias, vistas and cultural treasures, reports AP. But travellers will need patience to figure out who's allowed into which country, how and when.

As the European Union's doors reopen one by one to the outside world for the first time since March 2020, tourists will discover a patchwork of systems instead of a single border-free leisure zone, because national governments have resisted surrendering control over their frontiers amid the pandemic. And post-Brexit, Britain is going its own way altogether.

Read the current entry rules in some popular European tourist destinations here.

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