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According to the spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Rasa Jakilaitienė, such an exception will apply only in the case of direct flights chartered by tour operators.
“This is the way to travel to those regions that are not damaged by the virus. They can only be visited by tour operators, this does not apply to individual tourism. (…) When they return from these places, they will not have to isolate themselves” R. Jakilaitienė told BNS.
The Ministry emphasizes that the tour operator must ensure a mechanism to reimburse the costs of COVID-19 treatment and return to Lithuania.
“Travelers should be careful, because if they get sick or need treatment, they should keep in mind that insurance companies have their own policies,” said R. Jakilaitienė.
Žydrė Gavelienė, president of the National Association of Tourism Businesses, says the updated recommendations are the first step and safer regions should be expected.
The Ministry emphasizes that the tour operator must ensure a mechanism to reimburse the costs of COVID-19 treatment and return to Lithuania.
“The tour operators, on behalf of the association, approached the SAM to assess the individual autonomous regions. (…) We hope this is the first step we start from and that there will be more of those safe regions in the future. (…) There are more, there could be the Canary Islands, there are definitely more regions that are touristy, that are safe and whose indicators we can really trust, ”said Ž. Gavelienė to BNS.
Already at the beginning of August, tourism representatives asked for permission to organize trips to safe autonomous regions of Europe. At that time, all the associations of the tourism sector of the Baltic countries promised to address their governments.
Ž.Gavelienė later stated that Lithuanians travel through the surrounding regions and not through Lithuanian tour operators, so the competitive conditions of the latter are restricted.
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