Spain reopened to a select group of German tourists on Monday in a pilot project which will bring 10,000 holidaymakers to the Balearic Islands to find out how mass tourism can work in a time of coronavirus.
Flight attendants of TUI Fly wear face masks as they give instructions to German tourists on the first flight from Duesseldorf to Mallorca, two weeks before Spain starts reopening borders closed since mid-March to curb the coronavirus disease pandemic, in Duesseldorf, Germany, June 15, 2020. REUTERS/Erol Dogrudogan
Hotels are limited to running at 50% occupancy and will have infra-red cameras at their entrances to measure guests’ body temperatures. The government is limiting to 10,900 the number of test participants. But few were deterred. European nations eased border controls on Monday as the number of coronavirus cases declined, but Spain’s continued closure, a patchwork of quarantine rules and remote-working mean pre-crisis travel levels are a way off.
In 2019, Germans made up a third of international tourists to the Balearic Islands, an archipelago off Spain’s east coast that includes the iconic party island of Ibiza. But holiday life will be much more low-key than normal.
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