The Canary Islands have just seen their last attempt to save part of their peak tourism season, which has just begun, disappear.
Just a week after the United Kingdom and Germany decided to include the archipelago on the list of safe destinations, the governments of both countries
have decreed a new confinement of their populations
to fight against the second wave of the pandemic.
This means that neither Germans nor British will be able to come to the tourist islands, since, although this new lockdown is less strict than that of spring, they can only leave their homes for essential activities.
In reality, there are no border closures in Europe, but, de facto,
the closures make it impossible to leave the country when traveling,
except with just cause.
The Canary Islands thus escape their last hope to receive travelers in their high season.
The United Kingdom and Germany are the main source markets for tourists in the Canary Islands.
One in two travelers who visited the islands last year was British, which gives an idea of the damage that this new restriction implies.
In Germany,
Angela Merkel decreed a new confinement of the population last Wednesday.
In France, Emmanuel Macron did the same that same day.
The closure will last, at least, until December 1, depending on how the situation evolves.
In the UK,
the second lockdown announced yesterday by Boris Johnson will begin next Thursday
and will last at least until December 2.
Portugal, Belgium and part of Greece have also closed.
They are markets with less presence on the islands, which now place their hopes on the Nordic countries.
London included the Canary Islands as a safe destination a week ago, hours after Berlin did the same.
This implies that, since last weekend, citizens who return from the archipelago to one of the two countries
no longer have to be quarantined,
although they do have a test before flying.
Last weekend, after the announcement, reservations and searches for trips to the islands had multiplied by five.
The Canary Islands
is the only Spanish destination included in the safe area of the EU travel map
.
This cartography indicates the risk of contagion that exists by regions (not by countries) throughout the continent.
High-risk areas would be in red, medium-risk areas in yellow, and low-risk areas in green.
The EU decided to create this map to facilitate mobility, but today almost all of Europe is in the red zone.
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