After Sunweb, TUI and Corendon are also organizing a trial trip together. The travel organizations report this on Wednesday. At the beginning of May, 180 travelers will leave for Gran Canaria in Spain for an all-inclusive holiday of eight days.
The travel organizations are supported by the ANVR and the RIVM in organizing the trip. Unlike the Sunweb trip to Rhodes, travelers are allowed to leave their hotel during this holiday. Interested parties can register for the trip from Monday 19 April.
Independent researchers hired by the government look at how vacationers behave while traveling. The question is, for example, whether travelers adhere to the basic rules that apply there, such as washing hands, wearing mouth masks and keeping their distance.
The findings of the Rhodes investigation are presented prior to the trip to Gran Canaria, so that any conclusions from the first test holiday “can be taken into account”, the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management said of the trip.
Much interest in first voyage
There was a lot of interest in the first trial trip: 25,000 people had registered for 189 places. Holidaymakers must show a negative PCR test or equivalent, plus a negative rapid test, prior to travel. When they return home, they have to do that again, and they have to go into home quarantine.
Minister Hugo de Jonge (Public Health) writes in a letter to the House of Representatives that the government intends to carry out similar test journeys with other means of transport than the plane, such as the car, train or bus.
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