Europe`s move to keep Americans out signals long travel slump
(WorldNews Europe)

PARIS — 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. The decree, which will be reassessed every two weeks, signals the restrictions holding down business and leisure travel across the Atlantic will remain in place until the spread of the deadly virus is...