there are numerous videos online asking
where the hardest place in the world to
visit is or where the most isolated
place in the world is but let's say you
want the opposite let's say you're
planning some sort of convention where
you want to invite at least one person
from every single country in the world
but since we're all pretty evenly spread
out and our passports all give us
different visa privileges for different
countries where exactly would be the
best country to put this convention in
order to minimize travel time and visas
as best as we can for as many people
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before we can find just where we would
want to have this convention what do I
mean by a country being easy to get to
well there are lots of cities around the
world that are already global hubs New
York London Dubai Singapore Hong Kong
these cities all attract millions of
visitors every year and are each some of
the most iconic and well-connected
cities on this planet but that doesn't
mean all of these cities are necessarily
easy for everyone to get to for one most
of these countries for example the US
and the UK have rather exclusive visa
policies each only really allowing
nationals from a handful of countries to
visit without a visa this in my book
just for the sake of this video makes
New York and London hard to reach as
billions of people will still need to
get a visa from their local embassy
before they even leave their home
country so this disqualifies them from
the list as I am looking for countries
that allow the most people from the most
countries to simply show up and get
their passports stamped without having
to step into an embassy I'm also of
course going to disqualify cities and
countries that are just straight-up hard
to reach my plane so now rue being a
tiny island in the middle of the Pacific
that requires most nationalities to get
a visa would be probably near the bottom
of this list so just so everything is
completely clear before we start
basically we're trying to get at least
one person from every single nation to
this country with the minimal amount of
flights and visas so we're not going to
talk about how far they'll have to fly
or how expensive those flights may be or
what's going on with the North Korea
representative first let's look through
the visa policy maps to find what might
be the most inclusive countries purely
in terms of visa-free access the most
inclusive visa policy might be that of
Andorra which is now part of the
Schengen area but doesn't require any
foreigners get a visa in advance however
in practice anyone going there will need
to go through France or Spain and the
country is itself not that easy to reach
lacking any airports seaports or even
train stations many Caribbean nations
also show up on this list notably
Dominica who only requires those from
the Dominican Republic get a visa in
advance
however Dominica isn't exactly a global
hub with only two airports Douglas
Charles and Kane field which boasts only
served destinations elsewhere in the
Caribbean
Micronesia actually has a more or less
completely open visa policy with
citizens of just about every recognised
country having at least 30 days
visa-free also this is also 90 days for
citizens of EU countries except for in
the UK and Ireland for whatever reason
and indefinitely for Americans palawan
sand Marshall Islanders so why is there
so much time remaining in the video well
it's probably obvious but Micronesia
also isn't exactly much of an
international hub the country's three
biggest airports are located in Puna pay
gap and Coast ray which each only served
domestic routes and flights to the
Marshall Islands Hawaii and a couple US
territories and one flight from pawn a
page to Port Moresby Papua New Guinea
none of which are exactly international
hubs either not even you Honolulu let's
go down the list a bit further until we
find a bigger nation maybe also one with
a bit of a stronger tourism industry
Ecuador also ranks pretty highly on this
list although its visa policy isn't
exactly as cordial as our previous
examples as far however
ketose Mariscal Sucre International
Airport does have a pretty good
selection of destinations
yeah that's not exactly London Heathrow
though is it
I mean Quito gets a lot of traffic but
it's not exactly an international hub
like the likes of London or Singapore or
Dubai actually let's change gear a
little bit and look at some of the
world's hub airports if you want to
establish a truly global hub airport
the best place to do so has been proven
time and time again to be in the Middle
East smack-dab between Europe Asia
Africa and not comparatively far from
Australia at least by Australian
standards one country that might be
worth considering is Turkey a very
well-connected country with also a
relatively open visa policy at least as
long as you're willing to include Eve
eases which really aren't that hard to
get at all and don't even require an
embassy visit seriously you can just pay
a little bit of money and get it online
however it is worth pointing out that
the nationalities listed here in brown
do you have to fulfil some other
conditions in order to be able to apply
for the e visa which kind of throws this
whole thing off a little bit Turkey
however is also home to Turkish Airlines
which alone flies to over 300
destinations in a hundred 26 different
countries the most out of any airline in
the world that plus all the other
airlines flying in and out of Turkey is
precisely why Istanbul just got a new
airport that is being built up to
eventually be able to serve over 200
million passengers every year more than
twice the capacity of the biggest
airports in the world today okay so it
seems we've got ourselves a pretty good
contender but maybe not the most optimal
looking back the list of Middle Eastern
countries with prominent global airlines
the list more or less boils down to
Turkey Qatar and the United Arab
Emirates the UAE would be a pretty good
pic with Dubai alone as one of the
world's most visited destinations and
having one of the world's busiest
airports but their visa policy is fairly
limited and like many of its neighbors
completely bars Israeli citizens from
its borders which won't exactly do for
what we're looking for Qatar and its
capital Doha however might not be quite
as popular as the Emirates but it does
still have a very well-connected airline
Qatar Airways which actually serves
about the same number of countries as
Emirates and has a wide open visa policy
where only Israelis and Egyptians needs
to apply for a visa before travel but
still at least Israelis can apply Doha
Hamad Airport home to Qatar Airways is
also one of the few airports that serve
all six inhabited
it's something Istanbul does not do yet
if we wanted to do this all by
population in fact culture Airways also
serves most of the countries in this
circle which contains more than half the
human population in addition the world's
main population centers the average
location of everyone on earth is also
not relatively far away being somewhere
around South Central Asia you know maybe
all this has somebody to deal with the
2022 World Cup so if we were to hold a
convention where we invite one person
from every single country in the world
the easiest country for everyone to get
to on average at least might just be a
Qatar
of course these things can all change
pretty quickly as there are always new
contenders for this list Qatar might not
have completely open borders but they're
relatively open visa policies combined
with their global reach ensures their
spot at the top so if you find any
better countries please be sure to let
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