Travel ban

They can also be based on individual status, such as health or vaccination, or as driving bans during extreme weather events.

[2] Another example from that decade coming from the United States is that of the 1937 Neutrality Act which banned US citizens from travelling on any ship that was owned by or registered to a country that was at war.

During the Cold War the United States banned travel by declaring travel invalid to communist countries starting with Yugoslavia in 1947 before expanding to Hungary (1949), Bulgaria (1950), Czechoslovakia (1951) and Albania, Bulgaria, China, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania along with the Soviet Union in 1952 unless it was "specifically endorsed".

[8] Japan from the end of World War II until 1964 when they hosted the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics banned travelling abroad for pleasure purposes.

The 1988 Summer Olympics which were held in Seoul are credited in part to this as it helped open up the country to the rest of the world.

In East Asia after World War II, many countries in East Asia limited or banned outbound travel from their own citizens but allowed foreign citizens to visit as a way to bring in foreign money which could help pay for their industrialization.

During the COVID-19 pandemic the United States implemented a travel ban for most of those arriving from member countries of the European Union, United Kingdom, India, Brazil, China[14] and Japan[15] with flights coming to India being banned starting on May 4, 2021,[16] but with the exception of U.S. citizens and those with permanent residency cards.

Local governments can ban driving in an attempt to clear major roadways, as was the case during the Late December 2022 North American winter storm.