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In the case of Europeans, it is already starting to receive visitors from other countries who certify vaccination, have passed the coronavirus or have a negative PCR or antigen test. These three points are included in the European Union’s covid certificate, which has not yet been completed for technical reasons.

For those from the rest of the world, Argentina included, Spain will receive tourists vaccinated with any drug authorized by the World Health Organization (WHO) or the European Medicines Agency (EMA). The vaccines accepted to date are Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca and Janssen, Sinopharm and Sinovac-Coronavac.

At the moment, only people from India will have to do a mandatory quarantine of ten, but there is also a limitation on travel from Brazil or South Africa which, in practice, excludes them from entering Spain despite the fact that they are vaccinated.

For professionals in the sector, this date should mark the return of foreign tourists.

However, the UK – one of the most robust consumers of Spanish tourism – decided last week to keep Spain on its list of countries at risk., which forces its citizens to return to pay for the PCR test and observe a quarantine of at least five days, discouraging their travel to Spanish beaches, AFP news agency reported.

José Luis Prieto, president of the Union of Travel Agencies (Unav), expected “a huge rebound” on Monday. “We were talking with tour operators from Britain, France and Germany, which are the top three markets (for Spain), and there is a great demand for information” on the Spanish situation, Prieto said. to AFP.

On the Andalusian Costa del Sol (south) and in the Canary and Balearic archipelagos, hotels and restaurants have reopened after months of closure, while airlines have resumed flights to various destinations. Malaga airport, the most important in Andalusia, was expecting at least twenty international flights this morning from Berlin, Dublin and London.

The British decision was received as “a stick” for Spain, according to Darias.

Since May 24, Spain has lifted the request of the British, the first contingent of foreign visitors in normal times (18 million in 2019), to present a negative PCR to enter the country, a requirement that people arriving from China or from Japan.

“We do not understand why” the UK has not introduced tourist regions such as the Balearic Islands or the Canary Islands, where the incidence rate of the virus is low, on its green list of safe areas, said Friday the Minister of Tourism Reyes Maroto. .

The UK government will not revise its decision for three weeks, which means June could be a lost month for UK tourism, casting doubt on the Spanish executive’s goal of welcoming 45 million tourists this year.

Between January and April, Spain only registered 1.8 million foreign tourists, according to official figures. Amid this uncertainty, the world’s number one tour operator TUI has canceled all its flights to Spain until June 13.

As of today, Spain is re-authorizing the use of its ports for cruise ships. MSC Cruises has announced that one of its ships will set sail from Barcelona on June 26, while Valencia will receive TUI Cruises’ first ship on June 27. Very dependent on tourism, the Spaniard was in 2020 one of the hardest-hit Western economies. by the pandemic, with a drop of 10.8% of its GDP.