Posts Tagged ‘ Greece ’

Visitors from the UK rose only by by a smidge under 50% to 268,000.

It looks as those this year’s holiday period has a long tail and will extend well into the Autumn.

Cynical readers will know by now to distrust figures without understanding how they were reached.

It is as important to understand the rules of the country to which you are travelling as it us to abide by the rules of your home nation.

EU ambassadors meeting today recommended that vaccinated travellers from third countries should be able to enter the EU with fewer hassles

The good news for those wanting to travel to Malta as soon as possible is that you will only need to show your vaccination card

Travel Counsellors conclude that consumers remain confident that summer holidays both overseas and at home are on the cards

For the last seven years, independent experts advise Europa Nostra about endangered heritage sites in Europe. Seven more were added yesterday.

In case the EU doesn’t deliver the certification process in time, Greece plans to set up a bilateral arrangement.

According to the tourism minister all you want is Greece and it will put a smile back on your face again.

Readers know that –subject to life following the British government’s timetable – we can fly again as from May 17th. But should we travel that early?

I have been a little surprised at the destinations that seem to be topping the lists of travel agency and tour operator bookings.

As the Sunday People put it in its headline today, “Free by Summer.”

It has been confirmed that the Greek and UK governments have been talking about a travel bubble or corridor between the two nations.

What does come through though is that the traditional places -Spain, Greece and Portugal – are getting bookings over other destination despite our inability to travel.

Vaccinations seem to be stimulating confidence about travelling again.

Just about Travel continues its look at what is being tipped for the coming year.

As usual Just about Travel looks at some of those organisations involved in the industry to see what they are tipping for the coming year.

Ccountries moved to protect their own tourism businesses rather than to join together and protect the EU’s as a whole.

This week, Curacao, Denmark, Iceland and Slovakia have been added to the list of countries where quarantine restrictions will be applied on our return..

Seven countries have been added to the list to which Irish reidents can visit. The UK has added teo but taken another two off.

There is confusion as all four nations now have different rules for Greece.

If you thought that quarantine restrictions were confused last week, then this week they are mired in disagreement between the four nations.

The big news of the week, as if I need to tell you, is that as of 4am tomorrow, you will need to go into a 14-day quarantine on returning from France, Malta and the Netherlands and the Turks & Caicos Islands.

Now that Britons are free to travel to Greece what might we expect?

After the UK announced that they would impose a 14-day quarantine period on people entering the countries, France and Greece have announced similar restrictions.

Even if countries open up to Britons when will the Foreign Office remove its ban?

Whatever happens abroad is being closely watched in the UK and Ireland to help decide when we might be able to re-open museums again.