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Greece is to remove all remaining Covid-related travel restrictions on 2 May, in time for its peak summer tourist season. The nation joins a list of 15 other European countries, including Sweden, Madeira and Cyprus, which have dropped entry rules as infection rates stabilise. The Mediterranean country is expecting high numbers of visitors this year, with officials predicting revenues reaching 80% of 2019 levels, a record year before the pandemic brought travel to a halt.
Measures to be removed include vaccine certificates, recovery certificates and the requirement to wear masks in indoor public places from next month. Greece’s Health Ministry has said that Covid-19 has been stabilised in Greece, allowing the country to proceed with the suspension of the protection measures, but he emphasised that the measurements were being suspended, not abolished and that the rules would be reviewed in September.
Travellers will no longer be required to take a pre-travel test, quarantine or provide proof of vaccination to enter the country. On the ground, visitors will no longer have to wear a mask in indoor spaces such as hotel lobbies or show vaccine certificates to gain entry to certain venues. The scrapping its passenger locator form on 15 March, as well as extending the validity of visitors’ vaccine passes to nine months on 1 April.
With the Greek Ministry of Tourism being voted as the 'World’s Leading Tourist Board’ at World Travel 2021, it is taking steps to rejuvenate and revive the battered and bruised tourism industry in its country. industry in its country.
