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Denmark opens up for all tourists from the US

Denmark has ranked the US as "yellow" in its latest travel guidelines, meaning US residents can now travel to Denmark for tourism even if they have not been vaccinated.

Published: 18 June 2021 17:43 CEST
Denmark opens up for all tourists from the US
US tourists can once again come to Nyhavn from Saturday. Photo: Kim Wyon/Visit Denmark
 
From Saturday, following a recent EU review of third countries, the US, as well as Albania, Lebanon, Northern Macedonia, Serbia, and Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macao, have all been ranked “yellow”, for the purposes of entry to Denmark. 
 
This means that travellers from these countries and regions no longer need a so-called “worthy purpose” to travel to Denmark, opening the way for trips for tourism and other leisure purposes. Travellers from these countries and regions also no longer need to show a negative coronavirus test before boarding their plane or isolate on arrival (see requirements in the chart from the Danish police below).  
 
 
 
The new travel guidelines also open the way for Danes to take holidays to a range of new destinations, without having to isolate on their return. 
 
These include:
 
Greece: Crete, the Ionian islands, Epirus, Western Greece and Central Greece, without having to isolate on their return, 
France: Brittany, Aquitaine, Occitania, and Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur (which includes Nice, Cannes and Marseille)
Switzerland: Jura
Spain: Melilla

The government also on Thursday night agreed the fourth and final phase of the political agreement on a gradual reopening of travel activities, which will come into force on June 26th. 

From that point, Denmark will allow free travel into Denmark for anyone with an EU Digital Covid Certificate, so long as it shows that they have had a recent negative test, been vaccinated or previously infected.

At that point, all EU and Schengen countries and regions that are today marked “yellow” will become “green”, while those that are “orange” will be marked “yellow”. 

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Denmark’s DSB ticket app updated to allow multiple check-ins

The DSB app, which can be used to pay for rail and bus journeys across Denmark, has been updated so that users can use it to pay for accompanying passengers.

Published: 18 September 2024 15:41 CEST
Denmark’s DSB ticket app updated to allow multiple check-ins

Denmark’s national rail operator DSB has announced an update of its app to enable users to buy multiple tickets on the same journey.

DSB’s app, launched in April this year, allows you to pay for your journey and to check in on buses, local trains or metros. Over two and a half million journeys have since been paid for using the app, the company said in a statement on Wednesday.

To use the DSB app, you can use the “check in” function in the app and then “check out” when your journey is complete. Your fare will then be paid using the payment card you link to the app.

This will now also apply when you add additional passengers before checking, using the new function.

If you forget to check out at the end of your trip, the DSB app does this automatically after 15 minutes, preventing you from paying an incorrect fare.

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“There has been great demand from customers to be able to travel together using the Check-in function. Now you only need one phone to take care of tickets for everyone on trains, buses, metro, and light rail,” DSB’s customer manager Charlotte Kjærulff said in the statement.

As much as 77 percent of online ticket purchases with DSB are now completed on the DSB app, according to the company.

“We are continuously developing our app with the aim of putting everything the customer needs for their journey in one place.We want it to be easy for customers to find the right ticket for their journey,” Kjærulff said.

Many transport users in Denmark still use a physical Rejsekort when checking in and out of public transportation. The Rejsekort is also being replaced by an app, which was fully rolled out earlier this month. The Rejsekort app is currently awaiting the results of a probe by the national data protection agency.

Both the DSB and Rejsekort apps are likely to increase convenience for many public transport passengers who have previously been reliant on having credit on the physical card and remembering to bring it with them.

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