Which countries will open borders in summer 2020 for tourists

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

The travel business is in for a complete reboot this summer. The coronavirus pandemic has made adjustments to the way people live. The question of which countries will open their borders in the summer of 2020 for tourists is relevant for many.

Greece

Since no new cases of COVID-19 have been recorded in the last few weeks in the Peloponnese, Crete and Rhodes, the doors of hotels located in resort areas will open to tourists in June. This was announced by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in a televised address to the people.

According to "KP", according to information from individual sources close to the Greek tourism business, on the first day of summer, hotels will begin to receive local residents. International guests are expected to be welcomed in July. Whether the Russians will be among them depends on the resumption of flights to other countries and on the Schengen Agreement between Greece and Russia.

Recall that 26 countries have common borders with this country. Before their opening, Greece will have to be patient and wait for Italy, Spain and France to finally cope with the infection, or temporarily replace Schengen visas with national ones. But in this case, it will be possible to travel only in Greece.

Turkey

Minister of Culture and Tourism of the country Mahmed Ersoy in an interview with Turkish media explained: the borders will be open for Chinese, Koreans and Japanese in June. In the same month, guests from Germany and Austria will be able to relax on Turkish beaches, followed by residents of Central Europe and Scandinavians.

Russians and British will be able to visit the beaches of Antalya only in August. And local residents will have a rest within their country since May.

Due to the coronavirus, thermal imagers will be installed in all crowded places, namely: in hotels, air terminals, museums and restaurants. Most likely, the changes will affect the restaurant business as well. For safety reasons, catering establishments in all types of hotels are considering abandoning the buffet.

UAE

Dubai will be able to receive the first foreign guests when other countries open their borders to tourists. The head of tourism and commercial marketing, Helala Said Al Marri, hopes that this will happen in June.

But given that the situation has not stabilized, most likely, the restart of international tourism should be expected not in the summer of 2020, but in September.

Bulgaria

The Minister of Tourism Nikolina Angelkova, at the end of the videoconference with the colleagues of the European Union, announced that the opening of the tourist season in Bulgaria will take place on July 1. The first to visit the resorts will be local residents and guests of neighboring countries.

This does not apply to residents of remote states, since it will definitely not be possible to resume air traffic by this time. Good news for the Russians. Angelkova stands for simplification of obtaining visas for our citizens.

Asia

The first to take the blow of the spread of the viral infection were the Asian states. Taught by bitter experience, they keep the borders locked, and as long as they have a ban on the entry of foreigners.

According to the acting director of the Institute of the Far East of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Alexei Maslov, China is formally open. But there are still restrictions.

Today you need to obtain a business visa to visit. But even having a permitting document, it is necessary to provide proof of the impossibility of managing the business remotely. Before September, the PRC is unlikely to open its borders to foreigners.

Where can Russians go in summer?

In different countries, the situation with the opening of borders is different. Turkey plans to open them to foreigners by the end of May, but Turkish Airlines will resume flights to all Russian cities in August. For security reasons, most countries do not plan to receive tourists from other countries in the near future.

The Russians will have the opportunity to spend their holidays in the inner resorts. The most popular are already preparing to receive guests, developing increased precautions.

A trip to Sochi and Crimea can be scheduled for June 1. The doors of the sanatorium with a medical license will be opened for guests. But tourists are waiting for restrictions in the form of the impossibility to go to the sea.

It is allowed to stay exclusively on the territory of the resort and sanatorium complex. The order is expected to be strictly enforced. In order to avoid unnecessary contacts, a transfer will be organized. Guests will be met at the train station and taken to their destination.

Since few countries will open their borders in summer 2020 to tourists, Russians are better off opting for Russian resorts. But you need to be prepared for price increases. For example, even before the introduction of strict restrictive measures, the price tag for tours to the Krasnodar Territory increased by 20% and one should not expect a decrease.

In order not to incur serious losses in the tourism business and not go bankrupt completely, local authorities plan to introduce special vouchers instead of paid vouchers.

This means that after the lifting of the high alert regime, people will be able to use them to visit the Crimean coast and even postpone the trip to next year. At the same time, they will retain the opportunity to relax at 2020 prices.

Russians will also be able to spend their holidays in the Caucasian Mineral Waters, in the Kaliningrad region, in Karelia and on the Baltic beaches. Travel companies are preparing interesting tours of the Caucasus, Siberia, the Russian north and the Volga. Along with that, other regions have every chance of attracting tourists.

Due to the ambiguous situation associated with the virus, which countries will open their borders to tourists in the summer of 2020 directly depends on the reduction of restrictive measures. Therefore, it is worth finding an interesting place in Russia. For example, to see Baikal or Kamchatka with your own eyes.

Summarize

1. According to the most optimistic forecasts, flights with foreign resorts will not open until August, or even in the fall.
2. When this happens, people will have to get used to a series of restrictive safety measures.
3. The "resurrection" of domestic tourism is expected earlier than international. It is too early to speak about the exact date. According to preliminary estimates of experts - from June 1.