Canada's Covid-19 travel rules are changing this weekend, but here's why Americans might be disappointed:
and complete the questionnaire within 72 hours of arrival. Vaccinated travelers must upload proof of vaccination to the app in advance of arrival, while unvaccinated Americans and returning Canadians are required to quarantine. Travelers are considered fully vaccinated when they have received at least two doses of an accepted Covid-19 vaccine.
For travel within Canada, masks are still required on planes, trains and other forms of public transportation. Like their counterparts in the United States, tourism industry officials in Canada have pushed the government to remove any and all frictions and restrictions that they say are dragging down visitor numbers. “Despite this month’s increase in U.S. residents taking trips into Canada through land ports, the number of trips remains at half of the U.S. residents who arrived by automobile during the same month in 2019,” the Tourism Industry Association of Ontario said in a statement.
The main bone of contention has been the ArriveCAN app, which launched in April 2020 primarily as a contact tracing app, and has been used throughout the pandemic, mainly by Canadian travelers, to report mandatory travel, contact and quarantine information when they re-enter the country. Since the border reopened to Americans last summer, U.S. travelers have been required to use the ArriveCAN app when entering Canada.
Tourism officials say requiring travelers to use the ArriveCAN app is stifling tourism, but the Canadian government says the app isn’t going anywhere for the time being.
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