Canary Islands ‘peak’, Greece also named as an ‘outlier’

Tour operator and airline TUI is seeing a great deal of demand for the Spanish islands at the moment. The Canary Islands in particular are popular, now that a sun holiday abroad is ‘allowed’ again by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Sun destinations abroad in demand

TUI offers tourist travel to almost all of the sun destinations abroad that have been cleared. And that is catching on, after five months of a worldwide negative travel advisory. This coming weekend TUI has scheduled extra flights to Gran Canaria and Tenerife, writes NU.nl.

The ABC islands are popular too; the AD speaks of a rush on Aruba and Curaçao. Bonaire is expected to be cleared tomorrow.

TUI sees the Canary Islands ‘peaking’, while at friendly rival Corendon it is Curaçao and Greece that are climbing particularly fast. “Those really are the outliers for us”, a spokeswoman tells the newspaper.

Quarantine required in Portugal

Where to go in the summer holidays? We pointed to Greece, Spain and Portugal, among others. And we still do, but for the moment Portugal comes too soon.

Portugal requires Dutch travellers to quarantine on entering the country. “There is no market for trips where people have to sit in their hotel room for two weeks”, Corendon responds at NU.nl.

For that reason the airline is not offering holidays to Portugal. TUI is not offering packages either: “Anyone who wants to go to Portugal can of course simply buy a ticket from us, but we are not going to offer a whole package.”

• Both Corendon and TUI will resume holiday travel to Portugal once the quarantine requirement for Dutch travellers is lifted.

Asia: not Bali yet, but Thailand

Outside Europe only a few countries can be visited, Thailand among them. Bali is not there yet, despite all the efforts around the corona-free corridor.

According to international news media, Bali hopes to welcome foreign tourists at the end of July. After that the question is when the ministry will put the country on ‘yellow’.

All in all the travel industry is getting going again. So the dionvacation® editorial team will be highlighting various travel tips en sights once more. Bring on that beach holiday .