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The United Kingdom confirms that the Balearic Islands stay three more weeks on the amber list

Boris Johnson, pictured in London.
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London made public Wednesday night the update of its travel traffic light, which leaves the Balearic Islands and the rest of Spain three more weeks on the amber list, which allows vaccinated tourists from England to be exempted from quarantine. The decision that the Minister of Transport, Grant Shapps, broadcast at eleven o’clock at night supposes a breath of air that will mean the reactivation of reserves for this crucial month of August.

Shapps himself, through his Twitter account, acknowledged that the British Government has decided to expand the destinations that go to the green list, Among them Germany, Austria and Norway, in addition to the fact that the quarantine for travelers returning from France has been eliminated, a decision that had raised great controversy. Also this week the Johnson Administration He recoiled from the hardening he intended part of his cabinet introducing new categories at the stoplight, which would mean that Spain was one step away from entering the red list without prior notice, which would have been chaos in the middle of the season. However, the Minister of Transport insists that caution continues to prevail in the middle of the pandemic.

For the islands, safety that throughout August, if the health crisis does not give another scare, the United Kingdom will not increase restrictions, it supposes a boost so that the reserves are reactivated again given the relative security that the British will continue to have in order to continue with their vacation plans to the Balearic Islands.

While waiting for the Mallorcan hotel management to make its assessment of the update of the British traffic light, the director of TUI in the Balearic Islands, the Peninsula and Portugal, Ian Livesey, considers that the news is positive. “We hope that the British market will reactivate ”, he declares, at a time when all demand in general is slowing down. However, the tour operator himself highlighted this week that despite the difficulties due to insecurity in the face of London’s decisions that have the tourism sector in the midst of chaos, Mallorca is being the most popular destination for the British and Belgians this summer.

The new traffic light changes They will come into force in the early morning of next Sunday, August 8.

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