COVID-19 Restarting Travel & Tourism in Greece

Greece has welcomed the European Commission’s guidelines for EU tourism, announced to help member states cope in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Lab tests, hygiene rules, social distancing and protecting vulnerable groups are at the center of the Greek Health Ministry’s Covid-19 plan for the summer 2020.

Greece is expected to lift its restrictions on travel to the Greek islands as of Monday, May 25, while having previously allowed travel on the mainland and to Crete.

While gradually easing Covid-19 restrictions, the Greek government said that it will reopen the country’s organized beaches with social distancing rules on May 16.

The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has released a Tourism Recovery Technical Assistance Package to offer guidance to Member States in response to the Covid-19 crisis.

Greece is calling on the European Commission to adapt its proposal for a pre-travel coronavirus test to be instituted across the EU.

Greece on May 11 entered the second stage of easing lockdown measures that were taken to curb the spread of Covid-19.

Greece has revealed a number of rules included in the health protocols for tourism, created to be applied in all Greek hotels and on incoming flights once its 2020 tourism …

Safety rules and standards for coastal shipping vessels in Greece, to be applied after the temporary Covid-19 restrictions are lifted, were recently made public.

Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis is interested in the creation of ‘safe corridors’ that will allow people to travel between countries that have had success in containing the Covid-19 pandemic

Citizens in Greece are expected to be allowed to travel freely on the mainland as of May 18, considering “all goes well” with the containment of Covid-19 in the country.

Greece could be one of the first countries in Europe to welcome tourists back, once the Covid-19 pandemic has been combatted, says the WTTC.

Greece will promote itself, through a new promotion campaign, as a safe country and tourism destination to travel to in the aftermath of the Covid-19 crisis.

Under the best-case scenario, Greece will be open for business and welcoming tourists in July, provided that the EU has agreed on health protocols for travel, according to Greek PM …

Health safety protocols and diplomatic contacts to reopen borders are included in Greece’s plan for the tourism sector’s restart.

Greece has reportedly been approached to be part of an alliance to boost tourism and trade among the few nations that managed to contain the spread of Covid-19 with success.

Greece has entered the first stage of easing the lockdown it imposed six weeks ago to curb the spread of Covid-19.