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Greece will conclude intergovernmental agreements in the field of tourism with Bulgaria, Austria, Israel and Cyprus, Greek television Skai reported.
They are expected to join other countries that are better at dealing with the coronavirus, such as Denmark, Norway, the Czech Republic, and Australia. The objective of the bilateral agreements is to create safe corridors through which Greece can attract tourists during the summer season.
The Athens government is expected to present a comprehensive tourism plan early next week. Greece is already preparing for the summer tourist season, but there are still many unknowns. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, several countries like Greece, which receive millions of tourists every summer, face a zero season.
The European Commission has presented a package of guidelines and recommendations to help Member States to gradually remove travel restrictions and allow tourism companies to return to work after a long break, subject to necessary sanitation measures. As soon as it is established that the health situation allows it, people should be able to see their friends and family in their own EU country or abroad, subject to the necessary security and protection measures.
Free movement and cross-border travel are key to tourism. Member States can reduce the spread of the virus and therefore general restrictions on free movement should be replaced by more specific measures. The epidemiological situation does not allow the general elimination of restrictions and, therefore, the Commission proposes a gradual and coordinated approach, starting with the abolition of controls between zones or Member States with sufficiently similar epidemiological situations. The approach should also be flexible and include the possibility of reintroducing certain measures if the epidemiological situation requires it, the EC said in a statement.
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