By Cathy Elelman • Published: 18 Jun 2020 • 10:42
POSSIBILITY: The Balearic president said the idea is being looked into. CREDIT: Francina Armengol Twitter @F_Armengol
SPAIN’S party island Ibiza wants to run a pilot project to bring back British tourists.
Ibiza government president Vicent Mari has called on the head of the Balearic Island government Francina Armengol to extend the plan currently operating for German travellers to the British once the UK lifts its quarantine requirement.
Germans have been holidaying in the Balearics this week under a pilot initiative which allows them to fly in on so-called safe travel corridors between several airports in Germany and the islands. They are not required to go into a 14-day quarantine, but are subject to health checks and controls.
Commenting after a meeting with Mari and the Ibiza administration on Wednesday, the Balearic president said she “is looking into” the possibility of the same system being applied to the UK as is operating with the German market.
But she also made the point that such a project would depend on when Spain allows entry to travellers from countries outside the Schengen zone.
Mari highlighted the point the British market is the “most important” for Ibiza. A pilot tourism plan would he said provide “hopes and expectations” the island could have “a minimum season.”
According to Spanish press, both the Ibiza and Balearic administrations have already started discussing the pilot tourism idea with British tour operators.
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Cathy Elelman is the local writer for the Costa de Almeria edition of the Euro Weekly News.
Based in Mojacar for the last 21 years, Cathy is very much part of the local community and is always well and truly up on all the latest news and events going on in this region of Spain.
Her top goals are to do the best job she can informing the local English-speaking community, visitors to the area and the wider world about about the news in Almeria, to learn something new every day, and to embrace very new challenge this fast-changing world brings her way.
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