The United Kingdom's Minister of Transport has just announced that the Canary Islands are no longer in the areas not recommended for British travelers, according to the president of the Regional Government, Ángel Víctor Torres.
Specifically, as Torres pointed out, the islands will be included in the safe corridors starting this Sunday. "Another very good news," he said.
“The entry of the Canary Islands into the United Kingdom's safe corridors is excellent news and gives the Islands a new opportunity to start their tourist season with better prospects,” said the Minister of Industry, Commerce and Tourism, Reyes Maroto.
"The Governments of Spain and the Canary Islands, together with island councils, tourist municipalities and Canary social agents, have worked intensely in recent months to reinforce the image of the Canary Islands as a safe destination, a job that is beginning to bear fruit,” he added.
Maroto recalled that, since October 9, the Canary and Balearic Islands have had a protocol that allows the opening of tourist corridors and includes a system of tests at origin and destination "that guarantees tourists who visit the archipelagos safe trips." In addition, she celebrated that the United Kingdom has decided to adopt a regional approach in its travel recommendations, as Spain has always defended.
70 flights scheduled with Germany
It should be remembered that Germany has also agreed to remove the Canary Islands from the 'risk' destinations for traveling due to the incidence of Covid, a measure that in this case will come into effect from Saturday, October 24.
In this regard, the Ministry of Tourism of the Government of the Canary Islands has announced that for the time being there are 70 flights scheduled for next week from Germany to the Canary Islands by the airlines Condor, TUI, Ryanair, Easyjet and Lufthansa with a total of 13,000 weekly seats, according to the information provided by them to Promotur Turismo de Islas Canarias.
For the Minister of Tourism of the Canary Islands, Yaiza Castilla, the lifting of the veto by Germany comes at “a very important moment, right at the beginning of our winter season, which opens up good expectations for this market.”
However, she warned that "the demand in Europe in general for travel is weakened, and although the Canary Islands have a great advantage in being the only winter sun destination with European capacity and health standards, we must be prudent and not expect high levels of influx in the coming months, although important to start recovering the sector and confidence in the destination."
To this end, Castilla has announced that the Government of the Canary Islands is working "at full speed on new measures to be applied in the Islands, which will help us generate confidence” and that she hopes will be specified next week.