Interactive COVID Travel Map, Better Than IATA’s, Minus 2 Things

I recently found another online map that is SO MUCH easier to read and understand. It’s done by Omio, which is Europe’s leading multi-modal travel booking platform.

Omio’s Open Travel Index allows users to learn how and when each nation’s travel restrictions are being lifted. So users can easily see what countries they can visit based on their country of origin, overall status regarding travel into and within a particular country and whether non-residents are permitted access.

The interactive map is much more user-friendly than IATA’s. It shows you where you can go based on the departure country, with an easy “red-yellow-green” color-coded system based on the starting point and destination. You can review specific measures that you’ll need to know before traveling there, such as requirements for wearing masks, or certification of fitness for travel.

Here’s an example:

Let’s say you live in France. One of the first things you’ll see is a color-coded map of the area:

You also have a list of every country in Europe, with color-coding if a country is fully, partially or not open to you:

That’s just 2 pages. It goes alphabetically, all the way to the United Kingdom.

But let’s say you were planning on going to Austria, and wanted more info about traveling there from France. You just click on “More Information” and get all of this:

Which is just about everything you would need to know about traveling to Austria as someone living in France.

See? It’s simple, it’s user friendly, and it’s thorough.

The website’s biggest 2 problems, as least from an American’s POV?  It only gives info for those 37 European nations, and it gives no info for travel from U.S. countries.

Since the software program is European, I’m admittedly not surprised that it only focuses on Europe. I’m hoping that as cases around the world go down, they’ll include more info for “outside the EU/EEA, Schengen Area countries, U.K., Sweden, Spain, Portugal, etc.,” since that would include us. That way we could use the map for when we wanted to go to Europe, at least.

I really wish they would expand it; it’s so much better than what I’ve found out there so far.

#stayhealthy #staysafe #washyourhands

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