Economics
EU’s Move to Keep Americans Out Signals Long Travel Slump
- As tourist spots reopen, U.S. citizens largely unable to visit
- EU travel zone demands members stick together on policy
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As the Eiffel Tower gradually reopens from an extended shutdown, an essential segment of the summer tourist trade will be missing: Americans touching down in Paris on lucrative trans-Atlantic flights.
Voyagers from New York, Houston or Los Angeles will have to hold off on their overseas vacations after European Union governments extended a travel ban from Wednesday, deeming the U.S. response to Covid-19 insufficient to allow its citizens to enter the bloc for non-essential reasons.