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Croatia’s loss is painful.
This year, the Latvian airline airBaltic began flying directly from Vilnius to the Croatian city of Dubrovnik. The flights were soon launched by solo travelers. Lithuanian tour operators also planned to fly tourists and transport buses to Croatia. Such plans are now suspended.
How 15 minutes Milda Plepytė-Rainienė, director of the Lithuanian Tourism Association, reported that organized tourist trips to Croatia have not yet started, but this country is popular with individual travelers.
However, the organizers had planned trips for a later date. It turns out that on the return from Croatia it will be compulsory at 14. self-isolation, tour operators will not start to travel yet, “said M.Plepytė-Rainienė.
He regretted that each state on the list published by SAM is still painful for the tourism business. “If not the big tour operators make their charter flights, there are also the small ones that can organize tourist trips on regular flights to Croatia itself,” explained the head of the Lithuanian Tourism Association.
Travel updates are based on government recommendations.
Until now, the Lithuanian tourism business can organize trips to only a few southern countries, which are popular during the summer months. Greece and Cyprus remain now. Last week, tour operators already had to stop the newly started trips to Bulgaria, when the epidemiological situation in this country deteriorated.
Isn’t it too early for tour operators to resume travel, even when the risk of coronavirus has not disappeared? According to M.Plepytė-Rainienė, the government’s recommendations are followed.
“We really would like more cooperation and communication with the ministries. But we do not receive any additional information from SAM: all the information we have is the same that is available to all citizens.
Of course, we would like the tourism business to be informed a little earlier, but we do not have that. We have not yet been able to reach such an agreement. ” 15 minutes M.Plepytė-Rainienė said.
Trips to Spain are also planned. update in late summer. On Friday, the SAM announced that the increase in morbidity in the country Those returning from it are advised to isolate themselves.
“It is planned to resume travel to Spain in the second half of August, but only if things improve.” If it turns out that travel is unsafe or forced self-isolation is required upon return, then the trip will be rejected, ”said the head of the Lithuanian Tourism Association.
According to her, the company follows the recommendations of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Health when organizing tourist trips. “If the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reduces the recommendations from grade 4 to lower, then it is possible to travel to those countries. Then, the tour operators start operating because there are simply obligations for tourists. Otherwise, these obligations would not be fulfilled, ”M.Plepytė-Rainienė explained the situation.
He recalled that in the case of Bulgaria, tour operators, in line with the priority of traveler safety, had decided to end their trips even before the AMF reacted to the changed situation.
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That planning a travel upgrade is now a big challenge, 15 minutes Representatives for Novaturo and Tez Tour have also said. “In an uncertain world, planning for activities remains very difficult as the situation changes every day,” he said. 15 minutes said Inga Aukštuolytė, Head of Public Relations and Marketing at Tez Tour.
Authorities demand caution when traveling
Lithuanian ministers urge travelers not to relax yet: the threat of coronavirus has not yet disappeared.
“We see countries that are not far away and these are our compatriots’ favorite travel routes, and there are definitely more than a hundred people who have left for some of them. I am talking about Bulgaria and other countries that are popular as destinations tourism: and the situation in Croatia is gradually deteriorating It would be naive to expect the virus to overlook us for some miraculous reason, “Health Minister Aurelijus Veryga told reporters on Monday.
However, he said, much will determine how exemplary returnees from affected countries will meet self-isolation requirements.
Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius also warned in July that the risk of contracting the virus continues. “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs urges all those who intend to go abroad to assess the situation in a very responsible way. At the start of the pandemic, countries closed their borders throughout the day, limiting opportunities for citizens return to their homes. We hope that such a situation does not happen again, but at the same time we remember that, in the first place, the responsibility to travel before the end of the pandemic falls on the travelers themselves, “emphasized Foreign Minister Linas. Linkevičius.
Photo from 123rf.com / Travel during a coronavirus pandemic
The Ministry of Economy and Innovation has asked tour operators to fully inform tourists about the risks of traveling to other countries where the coronavirus situation remains difficult.
Minister Rimantas Sinkevičius stated that the situation may worsen in other countries as well, therefore it is desired to warn future travelers. “I wanted to point out that in other countries where they are not yet on the list of dangerous countries, such a situation can arise quickly,” the minister said.
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