The road to restart passes from Covid-tested travel: the latest news comes from Alpitour which will resume tours towards Tenerife and Fuerteventura, in the Canaries, with holiday packages that include tampons to be made before departure and before returning.
A new experimentation by the tour operator – which with its airline Neos already carries out the quick test during check-in for the Milan-Nanjing flight – which thus tries to re-start leisure travel making them safer and easier to organize.
It begins, not surprisingly, with one of the Nearest countries most loved by Italy, which allow us entry. In fact, it is enough for us Italians to enter Spain a certification attesting to having undergone a molecular swab, negative result, carried out within 72 hours prior to arrival.
THE CANARY «MODEL»
Alpitour, therefore, will facilitate travelers for the first buffer by providing a discount of 50 euros on the final cost of the trip and paying for the second (the one to do before returning, mandatory for those returning to Italy from Spain) that you can make it directly in the resorts where you stay. They are structures of Alpitour and Francorosso: Jacaranda and the H10 Costa Adeje Palace in Tenerife and the Occidental Jandia Playa and the Barcelò Castillo Beach Resort in Fuerteventura. They can be reached with flights from Milan Malpensa (those starting on March 27) and from Verona (from April 3). In case of positivity before departure or return, it will also be possible to include in the Alpitour package the optional Top Booking Covid policy, in addition to supplementary insurance.
Alpitour’s intention is also to be able to extend its “Canary model” (as the company has renamed it) to travel to non-European destinations such as the Maldives, Madagascar, Zanzibar, the Dominican Republic, the Red Sea, Mexico. Tourist destinations among the most sought after and also among the least affected by Covid towards which, however, the current Italian legislation – which instead allows you to move freely in the Schengen area – does not allow travel for tourism.
THE TOURIST CORRIDORS
This is why we should create of tourist corridors (or bubbles) as it has been asking for some time Astoi, Trade Association of Confindustria Tour Operators (of which Alpitour is a part and which Pier Ezhaya, chief operating officer of Alpitour World, presides): that is to allow travel to certain countries (those at low risk and which in turn would accept Italian travelers) with all the protections, starting with the tests . In this way we we could return to travel freely, safely, with the solidity and guarantee of a tour operator behind them, and the tour operators themselves could resume working after spending the worst year in the history of tourism. All this, then, would avoid an injustice: for months the insiders have not planned (and therefore do not sell) trips to countries outside the European Union while many Italians reach them bypassing the prohibitions, for example by stopping over in one of the many European countries that have not vetoed these exotic destinations.
This type of controlled and secure system, on the other hand, has already been successfully tested in some countries of the world (until a few weeks ago there was a corridor between Australia and New Zealand), and then a system in substance very similar to that of cruises, successfully restarted thanks to strict anti-Covid protocols that provide for sanitization, reorganization of spaces, as well as negative swabs before boarding.
THE HEALTHCARE PASSPORT
While waiting for the Foreign Minister to express himself on the idea of corridors, it is already a reality the digital health passport: an app that contains all the health information of passengers, i.e. results of Covid tests carried out before leaving and vaccinations. Among the most advanced and complete is that of IATA, the International Air Transport Association: it is Iata Travel Pass, already adopted by some companies such as Ethiad and Emirates, and whose large-scale testing begins in March. Carriers are certain that it is the only way to return to travel, and there are even those who are asking for more: for example, the head of Qantas, an Australian airline, has declared that vaccination against Covid-19 will be mandatory for international flights.
TRAVEL AND VACCINES
Can the vaccine be a pass? L’WHO recommended “not to introduce proof of vaccination or immunity requirements for international travel as there are still critical unknowns on the efficacy of vaccination in reducing transmission “pointing out that vaccines are still limited. The president of the EU Commission, Ursula von der Leyen – while she continues to repeat that it would be good to avoid unnecessary travel (the Farnesina does the same) – however, said willing to discuss a “passport for the immunized”.
Meanwhile, some countries have done more and have moved autonomously: above all Israel, which is moving forward with vaccines in record time. He tightened bilateral agreements with Greece and Cyprus so that vaccinated citizens can travel freely, without swabs or quarantines. In IcelandFurthermore, passports for vaccinated people have already been a reality since the end of January and just present them to move freely. The unvaccinated will have to “settle” for Cuba: one of its vaccines is in phase 3, almost approved, and the government has announced that it will also inoculate tourists for free.
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