Do cruises count as visiting a country?

Entering a country via its seaports because you're traveling on a cruise is considered “arriving in a cruise.” In this situation, the visa requirements for each country can be different from one another and they can even be different from that same country's requirements for travelers entering via plane.



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In most countries the area of the airport is regarded as an international zone for administration purposes. So international travellers who stay in the transit lounge are not entering the country.

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According to the All 50 Club, you've only visited a state after having “set foot on the ground of that state and breathed the air.” They're also adamant that neither layovers nor flying over a state counts as visiting.

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Tourists can be refused entry to a country for many reasons ranging from having incorrect travel documents to showing signs of a mental or physical illness. Holidaymakers can also be caught if there is damage to their passport, no matter how tiny it seems, and detained abroad.

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Customs and immigration are usually required at the connecting airport for international flights. You don't always have to for domestic flights. In most cases, passengers on layover flights must clear customs and immigration at the first point of entry.

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A passport is required for all international travel. If you're traveling anywhere overseas, you need a passport to board an international flight and to enter the country.

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At only six months old, Harper Yeats just completed the road trip of a lifetime, visiting all fifty U.S. states. This makes the Canadian infant the youngest member of the All Fifty States Club, a record previously held by a two-year-old boy from Northern Ireland.

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Still, the degree to which Americans have traveled around the globe varies widely: 19% have been to only one foreign country, 12% to two countries, 15% to three or four countries, and 14% to five to nine countries. Only 11% of Americans have been to 10 or more countries.

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