The main Spanish tourist destinations have looked to the United Kingdom with hope since yesterday, since as of Monday, travelers from this country can enter Spain without the need for PCR, as announced on Friday in Fitur by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez.

However, and although

there has been an increase in searches for flights from different tourist-issuing markets to Spain

, expectations have deflated, given that our country is still on the list of risk countries in London, our main issuer .

Spain is in the amber zone, forcing its citizens to quarantine upon their return.

From Cehat, the hotel management association, they point out that they still do not have reservation data in recent days, as it is too early to assess.

From the tourist intelligence company Mabrian they point out to EL MUNDO that

they have detected 35% more searches on the 20th

(when the EU announced the opening of tourism to third countries) from the main source markets and to Spain to travel in summer.

Between the 18th and the 20th, in full Fitur, the increase was 60%

, but it is a global figure, for all markets and to travel in the next 11 months.

ForwardKeys, a global travel data company, also sees an improvement, driven by demand for reservations from Scandinavia and the domestic market.

Bookings

However, in the current context, in which

searches do not always end in reservation, and reservations themselves end in cancellation

, so far the opening announcements have not resulted in more visits.

In fact, Spain is waiting for the United Kingdom to place us in the green zone.

The main association of tour operators and travel agencies in the United Kingdom, ABTA, recalled yesterday that the British who travel to Spain are still subject to quarantine.

Speaking to the EFE agency, a spokesman, Sean Tipton, explained that tour operators such as TUI or Jet2.com "will not send tourists" to Spain until the London Ministry of Foreign Affairs changes its recommendations.

For the moment

travel to Spain is discouraged except for "essential" reasons

, with the exception of the Canary Islands, although the archipelago is also in the amber zone of the risk map.

This list of safe countries will be reviewed at the beginning of June

and Spain hopes to be already green.

Meanwhile the activity will be relatively minimal.

The TUI tour operator will operate only "a small number of flights" to Lanzarote, Tenerife and Gran Canaria and Jet2.com and Jet2holidays do not have any trips planned until June 24, according to Efe.

According to the latest ticket issuance data from ForwardKeys, key issuing markets such as the United Kingdom "remain below average, but are expected to rebound once restrictions are eased, while tickets issued for future trips to Spain from Sweden and Denmark "have overshadowed the 2019 results since mid-April."

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