Spain ends forced quarantine for tourists from July
Spain has set up a compulsory quarantine for anyone coming from abroad, even for Spanish nationals. This measure caused reciprocity on the French side which also imposed a quarantine for people arriving from Spain. This quarantine raises questions about the tourist season because few tourists will agree to stay locked up 14 days before being able to enjoy their vacation. The Spanish government has just clarified things through the Minister of Industry: there will be no quarantine for tourists arriving in Spain from July. Lisbob, the expatriate assistant in Spain, tells you all about the announcements about the end of the forced quarantine.
Spain ends forced quarantine for tourists from July
The Spanish government has told foreign tourists today that there will be no forced quarantine in July for anyone wishing to come to Spain. Industry, Trade and Tourism Minister Reyes Maroto said on Monday that the 15-day quarantine imposed on foreign travelers will end at the same time as the state of emergency. The announcement is intended to encourage tourists, particularly French and German, to travel to Spain and resume reservations.
A few hours later, the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs Arancha González Laya assured that "the most difficult is last us. From July we will gradually reactivate international tourism, will end with forced quarantine and we will ensure the conditions of health security", has she said on her Twitter account.
"The entry of tourists to Spain will be a fact in July, once the state of emergency and the quarantine of foreign visitors is over," Maroto told Onda Cero, who defended the restriction, a measure that also adopted in other countries, but which is temporary and which will end simultaneously with the end of the state of emergency.
Today, a large interdepartmental commission is meeting to study the imminent reactivation of the Spanish tourism sector, at national and international level. The meeting was attended by Vice-Presidents Teresa Ribera and Nadia Calviño, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Arancha González Laya, Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, Minister of Transport, José Luis Ábalos, Minister of Health, Salvador Illa, and the Minister of Industry, Trade and Tourism, Reyes Maroto.
They addressed issues such as the future lifting of forced quarantine for visitors from other countries, depending on the evolution of the pandemic, and measures that allow the sector to organize the summer season and guarantee the holidays of million people in Spain.
The president of the Spanish government Pedro Sánchez fixed last Saturday the date of the return of the international tourists for the month of July. "There will be a tourist season this year," he said. Maroto today encouraged the French and the Germans to take advantage of their holidays in Spain because the quarantine will end once the state of emergency is over.
These statements are in response to those of the French Minister for Ecological Transition and Transport Elisabeth Borne in which she advised against going to Spain this summer due to contradictory measures by the Spanish government.