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Updated COVID-19 Policy 2023
Vaccination and testing January 2023: Rowing The World recommends but no longer requires guests to be vaccinated against COVID-19 or to test via PCR or rapid antigen prior to joining a trip. We will remain aligned with the entry requirements for every country where we operate trips. At the moment, none of our destinations require…
Rowing The World Climate Action Plan
In December 2021 Rowing The World declared a climate emergency and signed the Glasgow Declaration. One obligation is to develop a plan within one year of signing. This Climate Action Plan follows the format recommended by the Glasgow Declaration, with some modification. The blue text is the wording from UNWTO[1]. MEASURE Measure and disclose all…
Update on Carbon Footprint Commitments
Almost a year has zoomed by since Rowing The World declared a climate emergency and signed the Glasgow Accord. How are we doing on our commitments?
Rowing The World Declares a Climate Emergency
Rowing The World is proud to be a signatory of the Glasgow Declaration on Climate Action in Tourism. Rowing The World also declares a climate emergency. The Glasgow Declaration on Climate Action in Tourism unites travel and tourism behind a common set of pathways for climate action, aligning the sector with global commitments and catalysing…
Planning 2022 Travel in a Pandemic
There is good news and bad news. The good news is that in September and October we successfully and safely ran three rowing tours in Austria, France and Turkey. All guests were fully vaccinated. Participants who had Covid tests before returning home all received negative results. We navigated vaccination passes, entry forms to cross borders…
Travelling in 2021
03 June 2021 – What a long haul it has been through this pandemic, and of course it is not done yet. However, there are grounds for optimism and renewed hope. We have started reviewing which trips might be able to run in 2021. As always, our top priority is the safety and health of…
COVID 19 and 2021 Rowing The World Trips
What a difficult year 2020 has been. We hope that our rowing friends and their families around the world have stayed safe and healthy. So many lives have been lost and many have suffered in a multitude of ways. For many, I know that the chance to row has offered some measure of solace and…
Update on Rowing Travel
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact the world, bringing death and economic hardship among many other disruptions. But there are encouraging signs in some locations and a return to rowing and to travel has begun. What does this mean for Rowing The World trips? This post serves as an update to our first Covid-19 post…
COVID 19 and Rowing The World Trips
Update 02 July 2020 – The situation remains fluid and we have cancelled or rescheduled many of our trips but some may still run. Please see our 2020 Rowing Trips summary for updates and individual tour pages. We are investigating adding some new trips for 2020 which are aligned with current circumstances, especially more local…
Inside Rowing The World: How We Select Which Rowing Trips to Run
It is question that we often get asked – how do you decide which rowing tours to run? It is timely, since we are already turning our attention to planning trips in 2021, even before we have run our first trip of 2020. Our list of rowing destinations has grown steadily over our seven years…
