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The tourism experts of the seven East Frisian Islands are demanding a concept from the state of Lower Saxony that enables the local holiday areas to be opened up.
The managing director of Staatsbad Norderney GmbH, Wilhelm Loth, said at a press conference on Friday that it could not be that holiday fliers were allowed to the Balearic Islands, but that people could not come to the domestic islands.
The surprising decision from Berlin to allow foreign travel caused a lot of resentment on the islands.
The tourism experts received approval from Lower Saxony's Minister of Economics, Bernd Althusmann (CDU).
"After a year of the corona pandemic, the situation in the tourism industry and especially on the East Frisian Islands is more than serious," said Althusmann on Friday in Hanover.
"This makes it all the more important to have a timely opening perspective - we cannot stay in lockdown forever." Prudent action is crucial, "because the increasing numbers of infections caused by the mutating coronavirus are worrying".
The tourism industry and the Ministry of Economic Affairs are working on responsible strategies for how first openings can be possible with comprehensive health protection, said Althusmann.
"We are intensively examining whether model projects can be implemented which, scientifically accompanied, can show a safe path for all of Lower Saxony's tourism."
He expects that perspectives for the tourism industry will also be a key topic of the upcoming federal-state consultations, Althusmann said.
It is no longer possible to explain why a vacation on Mallorca is possible, but not traveling in one's own state.
He is sure that the municipalities and business will dare to start the tourist season again responsibly.
"With operational hygiene concepts, communal test strategies, limited capacity utilization and digital contact tracking, this should not only be made possible for the East Frisian Islands."
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In an urgent procedure, the Higher Administrative Court in Lüneburg also overturned a rigid five-person limit in the regulations on the corona contact restrictions in Lower Saxony.
The rule, which is also laid down in it, according to which a maximum of members of two households may come together, was left untouched by the judges in their decision announced on Friday.
A family man with three children over 14 years of age had sued.
(Az. 13 MN 132/21)
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