The safest destination for travel after the coronavirus
Many people ask questions like this. Will it be safe to travel after you have passed this confinement? If so, will I be able to travel? Where should I go? They’ll have the necessary security measures there so I don’t get infected. In this article we will solve most of your doubts.
Is it safe to travel in the middle of a coronavirus crisis?
To be able to travel, several factors must be taken into account, among them the sense of belonging to a group, in our case to humanity. Is it really necessary to travel? It is no longer a question of individual freedoms for each person, but of social responsibility towards other citizens. All citizens are essential in the control of the pandemic.
The current situation has a higher priority, which is to stop the coronavirus curve. The idea is to prevent too many people from being infected at once, which would lead to the saturation of the public health system which is already unable to cope with massive contagion.
In this sense, one of the measures to be followed is to reduce travel to a minimum because, as Fernando Simón, director of the Health Alert and Emergency Coordination Centre of the Ministry of Health, recalled a few days ago, the movement of people contributes to the spread of the virus.
Where to go and why?
If you want to travel, it is not easy to predict which destinations will recover first and where tourists will travel in the coming months. Almost everyone agrees that the summer is practically lost and that a relative normality will not be recovered until September or later, some believe that even 2021 will suffer.
What seems clear is that travel will grow in stages, not least because not all countries will overcome the crisis at the same time. Most likely, travel will start with the closest destinations. Spain has a lot to offer and Spanish travellers, who already mostly choose destinations within the country for their trips, will do so to a greater extent this year.
What is clear to us is that the trend will be mostly close trips, mostly in the car itself in order to continue avoiding crowds and to be sure of returning in case of a relapse.
Places like natural and lonely spaces and beaches without many people will be the most chosen, the warmest ones will also be favoured, since it is assumed that the virus does not reproduce easily with heat.
These trips will begin to take place, and if all goes well, in June, they will progressively increase in summer and consolidate in September, it will then be time for the Canaries to recover from this mobility crisis.
It’s May and we’re looking forward to another successful summer season. Holidays in this era have always been a trigger, both for us travellers and for the island’s tourism sector.
In the current state of the coronavirus pandemic curve, which has been maintained and is in a phase of reduction, all those involved in the tourism sector agree that the alternative for travel with the best economic impact is that of national tourism, from some communities there are already several chains that are encouraging residents to travel within the country.
The tourism sector is one of the main industries at an international level, it represents 10% of the world’s GDP, and in our country it is the lung of the economy that generates 12% of the national GDP. Restaurants, hotels and commerce are sectors that define the productive structure of Spain, employing nearly five million Spaniards and maintaining the country.
“In other crises we have been the locomotive sector and now we are the most vulnerable”. This is how Exceltur’s president, José Luis Zoreda, expressed it in the online newspaper “elespañol. com”.
It’s not all bad news, the first steps to get back to normal are already in sight. are phases proposed by the government to reactivate the country’s economy and keep the number of infections stable.
De-escalation phases
Two de-escalation phases are planned for this sector:
Phase 1 of de-escalation: which would last until the end of 2020, with a small opening of the tourist establishments in summer and an estimated improvement from September onwards.
Phase 2 of de-escalation: postponed until 2021 for the time being, when international tourism would again gain strength.
However, as warned by the Minister of Industry, Trade and Tourism, Reyes Maroto, the recovery of any activity, including leisure and tourism, will be subject to three fundamental conditions to ensure health safety: social distancing, capacity and hygiene measures. the minister also stated that the alarm conditions any action. “Any de-escalation calendar is conditioned by the control of the health crisis” said the minister, according to a source in the daily “El País”.
In view of the uncertainty of knowing when this health crisis will come to an end, the forecasts of hotel chains and businessmen in the sector are vital. Preparing strategies to reduce losses is one of the main objectives in all companies.
It is necessary to prepare strategies to ensure favourable developments over time that go hand in hand with the de-escalation phases of confinement due to this health alert, such as: offers on internal flights and greater frequency, adaptation of health hygiene measures, expansion of the offer in new national destinations, employment benefits for the sector and tax reductions in tourism activity.
While Spain awaits the recovery of international tourism, especially from Europe, we Spaniards will decide on a nearby destination, avoiding crowds, of shorter duration and with a tighter budget.
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