The Spanish Confederation of Hotels and Tourist Apartments (CEHAT) has requested this Monday that coronavirus tests be carried out on travelers at origin and destination, and has offered to finance the tests upon departure from their establishments in Spain.
In a statement, the employers' association of Spanish hoteliers expresses "its surprise and disappointment" at the United Kingdom's decision to impose a two-week quarantine on travelers returning from Spain, and requests that measures be adopted at the European level.
With the surprise imposition of a British quarantine, there is a risk that other governments will adopt similar solutions in an ill-considered manner and without obeying the real situation we have in Spain and, especially, in the peninsular tourist areas and the Balearic and Canary archipelagos, they warn.
"We must ask that decisions be made based on objective criteria of evolution of health security and demand accountability for reckless measures that may cause serious damage to tourism and, especially, to hoteliers, who are complying with the most demanding protocols in all of Europe," says Jorge Marichal, president of CEHAT.
In line with this, the president of CEHAT thanks the Spanish Government for working "so intensely" to try to reverse the situation as soon as possible.
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