Summer 2021: clarity on the new travel advice comes a week later
On Tuesday 11 May there will be more clarity about the new travel advice for this summer. “We have decided to move the whole decision-making to next week, holidays included.”
The speaker is caretaker minister Hugo de Jonge, who advises a wait-and-see attitude. “It is certainly fine to start looking at all sorts of sites. Pick out your campsite already, I would say.”
“But before actually booking…”, goes on De Jonge, “…it is wise to wait for the travel advice.”
The travel advice was missing from the reopening plan
In the recently presented reopening plan there was no explicit mention of the travel advice. It did become clear that the one-and-a-half metre rule would apply during the summer holidays too.
A week later caretaker prime minister Mark Rutte was questioned about the travel advice and the summer holidays. Rutte answered that something would be said about it on 3 May .
Postponed decisions
So Rutte cannot keep that promise, made “in quickly erasable ink”. According to De Jonge that is because all decisions are moving back a week. Because of the high infection figures and the equally high occupancy in hospitals.
Travel abroad advised against for months
The travel industry is craning its neck for the long-awaited easings. Travel abroad has been advised against by the government for months. Since mid-December the whole world on code orange.
Through the corona passport, the ‘friendlier version’ of the vaccination passportmentioned earlier, travel becomes possible. The European Parliament has agreed to such a passport.
Where to go in the summer holidays?
Which is why southern European sun destinations such as Greece, Portugal and Spain are opening to foreign tourists.
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