As part of the wider UN response to COVID-19, the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres released today a thematic brief on the impact the pandemic has had on tourism. 
Starting September 1, residents of Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York and Vermont will be permitted to travel to Costa Rica
Hawaii, which has been battling a Covid-19 surge all summer, is effectively shut down to tourists until at least October 1.
St. Kitts and Nevis has just announced plans to reopen its borders to foreign tourism beginning in October 2020.
The U.S. Travel Association has urged both chambers of Congress to soon consider separate actions on coronavirus relief legislation for the travel industry.
Remarks by UNWTO Secretary-General Zurab Pololikashvili
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