Hotels begin to ban American tourists - USA and UK unlikely to be included in ROI's 'travel green list' - American Airlines flight from Fort Worth Airport in Dallas Texas to arrive in Dublin in next 24 hours

The current guidelines for anyone arriving in the Republic of Ireland from overseas is that they must self-isolate for 14 days.

England, Scotland and Wales are not exempt from the Irish quarantine regulations but Northern Ireland is.

On Monday, the Irish government will publish a 'travel green list' of countries deemed safe to travel from and to.

Anyone travelling from any of the countries on the list will not have adhere to self-isolation regulations.

The USA will not be included in the list and it is unlikely the United Kingdom (excepting Northern Ireland) will be included as well, revealed the Republic of Ireland's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Simon Coveney.

“I think there’s no question that the US will be on the green list, it won’t be,” Minister Conveney said on Pat Kenny Show on Irish radio station, Newstalk.

“And I think it’s very unlikely our closest neighbour either will be under that threshold that we set.

“And that’s really unfortunate because the two countries that we would like to be opening up to, in terms of international travel, are the UK and the US, given the integration between our economy of those two countries and of course the number of visitors that would like to come here to spend money in hotels and have holidays here and so on.

“So, I think it’s very unlikely that either the UK or the US will be on that green list.

“It’s not going to be a particularly long list," said Mr. Coveney.

Hotel bans American tourists

The USA continues to struggle to control the spread of COVID-19 - at the time of publishing there were almost 3.7 million confirmed cases and more than 140,000 COVID-19 related deaths in the USA.

Despite high levels of infection with the USA, commercial flights continue to arrive in Dublin from Dallas (Texas), New York and Chicago.

On Tuesday July 14, the US state of Texas reported its greatest number (10,745) of new infections in a 24 hour period.

Texas is officially the fourth worst hit state in the USA with more than 313,060 confirmed cases and 3,770 confirmed COVID-19 related deaths of which 289 occurred on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week.

American Airlines flight AA 132 from Fort Worth International Airport in Dallas is due to arrive in Dublin International Airport on Saturday morning.

There have been numerous reports on social media of businesses all over the Republic of Ireland imposing a ban on American tourists.

An Irish radio station interviewed American travellers as they arrived in Dublin this week and all of them said they had no intentions of self-isolating for 14 days.

Charleville Lodge in Dublin was critical of the Irish government and explained why it would not be accepting any guests from the USA.

"I’d like to advise that we will NOT be accepting these [American] guests if they arrive at our door," wrote owner Paul on social media.

"The government have advised that overseas guests must 'stay in your hotel or guesthouse' which means the government is happy to put my staff at risk by being in contact with these guests as they arrive and throughout the duration of their stay. This is NOT self-isolation," he added.

The Strandhill Lodge and Suites Boutique Hotel is approaching the issue of overseas guests much more cautiously.

Any guests arriving from overseas will be asked to provide proof that they observed 14 days of self-isolation before arriving at the hotel.

"You will not be allowed to stay with us if you have not quarantined.

"We do this with a heavy heart but we hope that you understand," wrote General Manager, David McCoy on social media.