Originally Posted by
CPH-Flyer
Those limitations are not based on countries banning Norwegians and Swedes, but based on the Norwegian and Swedish authorities' assessments of the out break in those countries. I do think that the Norwegian government tend to be a bit on the over cautious side when it comes to countries requiring quarantine. Though I have not followed the status in Mexico closely, I would say that is the Swedish government does not require quarantine for people returning from Mexico, they are probably on the overly lax side.
Actually, Sweden doesn't have and have never had any quarantine restrictions for any countries at all. The Swedish advices are not based upon the infection rate but solely on practical questions that have to do with how easy it is to travel. To simplify it, you could say that Swedish authorities recommend against all unneccessary trips to countries other than European countries that welcome Swedish travelers. So, Sweden recommends against traveling to Finland, which has very low infection rates, because Finland has closed its borders to Swedes.
Sweden also recommends against traveling to e.g. Mexico (and all non-European countries), so a Swedish travel insurance is not valid for a trip to Mexico. But if a Swede is willing to buy a separate insurance, or travel without insurance, it's fully possible for him to visit Mexico and return to Sweden with no quarantine.
Originally Posted by
GUWonder
For all of the last ten years, in-person Norwegian border shoppers in Sweden has been such a tiny fraction of Swedish retail sales that the drop barely registers nationwide if card transaction activity mean anything. And during this time, in-person Danish border shoppers in Sweden account for a much greater volume of sales than Norwegian border shopping in Sweden. Swedish retailers in the aggregate live off local/captive Swedish buyers, as that is where the big consumer bucks are.
Last year, Norwegians shopped for about NOK 18 billion in Sweden. If my quick Google search is correct, that was about 2.5% of the Swedish total retail sales of 700 billion. Retail sales in 2Q 2020 fell with 7.7%. So, presumably, about one third of that fall was due to the absense of border shoppers from Norway.
Do you have any concrete figures for Danes doing border shopping in Sweden, and Swedes shopping in Denmark? Do Swedes ever shop in Denmark at all, or is it too expensive these days?