The FEHT calls for caution and calls for the responsibility of the population
The Dutch government has lifted the restriction and recommendation not to travel to the Canary Islands as of Tuesday, after other countries such as Germany, Great Britain and some of the Scandinavian countries have done so due to the decline in coronavirus positives in the islands in recent weeks.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has decided to change from code orange - only necessary trips - to code yellow for both the Canary Islands and Greece, so that travellers returning to the Netherlands from either of these destinations will no longer have to keep an obligatory quarantine.
The Dutch government has also informed citizens of its country through its official website that they must show a negative PCR test carried out between 48 and 72 hours before travelling on arrival in the archipelago, a measure that the regional executive is currently working on implementing.
Meanwhile, the Peninsula and Balearic Islands will keep the colour orange, which means that once travellers return to their country they will have to keep a home quarantine for ten days.
People are asked to take responsibility
The president of the Tourism and Safety Commission of the Las Palmas Federation of Hotels and Tourism (FEHT), Tom Smulders, welcomed the news although, he warned, "it is accompanied by the need to take due care and caution to maintain the scale of the infection rate at current levels".
Smulders considers it "vital" for the sector to maintain the island at its current margins, in order to "keep connections open with the main client issuing countries", which consider the Canary Islands to be a "safe destination" at the moment.
In this respect, Mr Smulders called on the population to "maintain a cooperative attitude, complying with the established health measures", which will prevent the government from "having to apply tougher restrictions", such as those currently imposed on the rest of the country.
Likewise, it considers it appropriate to carry out tests at origin, on all travellers, before taking the flight to the islands and, if necessary, to carry them out at destination, in the airports, before the travellers travel, after their arrival, to their places of residence or rest.
"Only through these controls and a responsible attitude on the part of the population will the Canary Islands remain a reliable destination and be able to glimpse the recovery of the sector and with it that of the economy of our region," Smulders concluded.
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