No foreign beach holiday yet: ‘Negative travel advice extended to mid-April’
The travel industry needs a little more patience where trips abroad are concerned. The negative travel advisory is expected to be extended to 15 April. It is the third extension.
The measure will be covered at tomorrow's press conference. Sources at news agency ANP report the news. That follows reports by De Telegraaf.
Many areas may go back to yellow from the new date. With that colour code there are still risks, but holiday travel is allowed. A relief for the travel industry.
According to the newspaper, caretaker prime minister Mark Rutte also wants to say something about “when we can say something about the May holidays”. The question about that has been open for some time.
Almost half a year without travel abroad
- At the beginning of November trips abroad were first advised against by the government, until mid-January.
- Certain destinations, on the other hand, were still ‘yellow’, with holiday travel allowed, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
- TUI and Transavia kept flying to tourist destinations because ‘travel to a yellow area is allowed’.
The whole world on code orange, and the advisory extended
On 16 December the conflicting travel advisories came to an end. Since that date the whole world on code orange: the negative travel advisory.
Two days earlier the government had already announced that it would advise against travel abroad until mid-March. Which is why, for instance, the Alternative Dutch 11-City Tour on sea ice at Luleå (Sweden) cancelled after all.
In theory skating enthusiasts had another chance at the end of March, but in January that dream fell apart: the new extension of the negative advisory ran until 31 March.
Tomorrow the Netherlands hears of another extension, to 15 April.
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