A southern European sun holiday is on: all of Italy yellow, and these 6 countries too

As expected, all of Italy turns yellow, in time for the summer holidays. This southern European sun destination is now accessible to Dutch travellers as well. The colour code (travel is possible; take care, safety risks) applies from tomorrow.

Italy recently made clear that it was ready to receive foreign tourists.

All of Italy yellow

• The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs was watching the situation closely. The Italian island of Sardinia had already turned yellow recently.
• So the more positive advisory for the whole of Italy was in line with expectations. ‘Yellow’ is not yet green , no particular safety risks, but tourist travel is allowed again.

So Italy can join the list of ‘Where to go in the summer holidays’. They will be glad of that, because international tourism is getting going. The Canary Islands (Spain), for instance, became popular straight away after the island group was cleared .

Portugal will notice an upturn too. Despite code yellow, airlines such as TUI and Corendon avoided the mainland because of the remaining quarantine requirement. But the Portuguese government lifted it quickly and tourist travel has resumed.

Code yellow for 6 other countries as well

Besides the familiar sun destinations, six other countries turn yellow tomorrow:

• Poland
• Austria
• Czechia
• Luxembourg
• Slovakia
• Germany

“In many European countries there is a steady fall in corona figures”, explains de the Dutch government. “That makes holiday travel to more and more countries possible.”

“At the same time the ministry stresses once more that travel at this time comes with risks.”

The risk: code orange again

One of those risks is that a destination is given code orange again. In that case the advice is to make essential travel only . Tourism does not come under that. Which is why a tour operator sometimes says you ‘have to’ come back.

The South Aegean islands (Greece) recently went back to orange. And a country can impose entry restrictions of its own accord.

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