Greece accelerates to restart i do you travel: the Deputy Minister of Tourism Sofia Zacharaki, in a televised interview, he just announced that from 14 May it will reopen the borders to European citizens and to those coming from some other countries, such as Great Britain and Serbia. From that date, that is, to enter Greece as tourists quarantine will no longer be required: a vaccination certificate or a negative result from a molecular swab will suffice.
News that was in the air: despite the percentage of vaccinated people is still very low (just 7%) and mortality very high, Greece has never hidden that it wants to bet everything, immediately and at any cost, on recovery of tourism, which is worth 20% of GDP. In fact, it has also directed its vaccination strategy in this direction.
Hand in hand with the elderly and health workers, Greece immediately began to immunize the most remote territories, namely the 230 islands that become a tourist’s paradise in summer. After Kastellorizo, the first Covid-free island in Europe, it was the turn of Lipsi and Elafonissos and now almost all the inhabitants of the islands have received the serum. At the same time, and despite the European Union’s contrary opinion to bilateral agreements, the Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has opened a tourist corridor with Israel which allows free movement between the two countries for vaccinated citizens.
Following the example of Greece, many others are doing the same, starting with another “rival” of the Italian holidays, namely Egypt: Sharm el-Sheikh and Mars Alam will soon be Covid-free following a specific plan of the government that has favored them over non-tourist areas. The same is happening in many exotic locations, such as Maldives, where in the winter months, bypassing the prohibitions, two million Italians went on vacation.
In Italy, meanwhile, the debate is open: the presidents of Sicily and Sardinia, Nello Musumeci and Christian Solinas, but also the governor of Campania Vincenzo De Luca (who wants to immunize Capri and Ischia), have appealed to the government to follow the example of Greece. Tourism Minister Massimo Garavaglia has just said he is willing to discuss Covid-free Italian islands but in fact, in this way, it has opened the battle with all the other tourist resorts of our country which, not being islands, could not benefit from the same advantage.
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