Travel advice: all of Europe yellow or green (EU), the Netherlands changes its approach to travel

All of Europe yellow or green: sun lovers can make tourist trips within the European Union. The negative travel advisory disappears here entirely for the first time. No more colour code orange, a breakthrough.

“As a result of the changed situation in Europe, the government has decided to change its approach to travel within the European Union”, reports de the Dutch government in a news item.

The vaccination rate

Among other things, reference is made to the vaccination rate. “More than half of adults in Europe are now fully vaccinated.”

“In the Netherlands 83.5% have had a first jab and 59% of adults are fully vaccinated.”

The corona passport

The government also points to the corona passport. After all, there are European agreements about the use of the DCC corona certificate, Digital Corona Certificate.

The pressure on hospitals is mentioned as well. It is manageable.

Holidays abroad often did not go ahead

Colour code orange – essential travel only – regularly put the fear into travellers.

• Because of the negative advisory, flights and holidays often did not go ahead.
• It also happened that tourists already at their destination had to return to the Netherlands.

The orange advisory was based on the number of corona infections (COVID-19 with its many variants). But those figures do not always tell the whole story, now that there are vaccinations and travel certificates.

Which is why airlines and tour operators rebelled a few days ago. They decided to fly to orange areas anyway.

“From 27 July 2021 the Netherlands will not give EU countries an orange advisory on the basis of infection numbers alone”, the government says. “A country can still be given an orange advisory if a new virus variant appears.”

The dionvacation blog dossier

In a special blog dossier we placed every blog article about relevant changes to the travel advice.

With all of Europe yellow or green, that urgency has gone for now. Sun destinations are expected to keep switching from yellow to green and back. But that has little impact: travel is possible in all cases. So we will no longer post items in the blog dossier travel advice.

This editorial choice may change if colour code orange starts playing a role in the EU again.

Outside the EU we keep an eye on developments in Indonesia (Bali/Lombok).