25 May, 2020 @ 16:07
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Spain’s coronavirus quarantine for tourists to be scrapped in July

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STRICT quarantine rules on tourists visiting Spain will be lifted in July.

During the coronavirus lockdown, all international travellers arriving in the country have been ordered to self-isolate for 14 days.

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TWEET: Arancha González Laya confirmed quarantine restrictions will end in July.

But in a bid to save the nation’s vital tourism industry, Minister for the Exterior, Arancha González Laya has confirmed on Twitter that the rule will change in time for the summer.

She posted: “The worst is behind us. In JULY we will:

  • gradually open to international tourists
  • lift the quarantine
  • ensure the highest standards of health safety

We look forward 2 welcoming you!”

Although her message does not give a specific date, tourism bosses have taken it to mean that the restrictions will end from July 1.

The tweet backs up a statement from Spain’s tourism minister, Reyes Maroto, who told a radio interviewer that people should plan for holidays in July.

Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has also told hospitality industry leaders to prepare for the arrival of visitors, saying: “There will be a tourist season this summer.”

The announcement came just a few hours after Juanma Moreno, leader of the Andalucian regional government, branded the quarantine period “a nonsense.”

Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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