The Spanish government, like most of the world’s governments, knows full well that this year (2020), the country will not witness a significant tourist season, and it recognizes with pain that there will not be enough of the 50 million regular tourists for each year, but very few, if any, which means the loss of about 90 billion Euros make up approximately 13% of GDP.
But these frustrating facts do not discourage some from trying to create conditions that might be appropriate for the post-quarantine stage, with the firm belief that the pandemic will not end overnight, and that general preparedness and special preparedness will remain for a long time in the lexicon of governments and medical authorities.
In an interview with the Spanish newspaper "El Pais", the manager of one of the luxury hotels in the capital Madrid said that one of the possible suggestions would be the preparation of health certificates for public hotels confirming that they are compatible with public health measures, mainly related to the epidemic of the emerging coronavirus.
It is a testimony that will be similar to the testimony that some countries consider giving to those who were vaccinated against the virus in the future, or those who have proven permanent physical immunity against it.
But how do you transform your hotel or public facility designated for customers' use of an establishment that is in compliance with the Covid-19 control measures?
One of the currently popular suggestions is to allocate a medical unit for each hotel, which conducts rapid virus investigation tests for incoming customers, which is a test that needs 10 minutes to obtain a positive or negative result, and it will be done by stable medical units in tourist facilities.
After inspection, customers can obtain a room key, which in many cases will switch to a fingerprint system to avoid the use of magnetic plastic cards, while the door opening system will be transferred to the automatic, sensor-based system, including public bathrooms.
Each customer will receive his own health protection box, such as masks, gloves, sterilization boxes, and other necessities at these times. Of course, hotels will be provided with thermal cameras that can investigate any abnormal change in customer temperature, allowing them to act quickly to avoid the possibility of an infection.
In the rooms, some ways to keep rooms clean and the customer's well-being have not been solved, especially as we are talking about hotels with high budgets able to withstand these changes, within the framework of a plan of action to receive a third of the number of customers possible under natural conditions, but also with fewer workers.
Daily sterilization
And among the ideas on the level of rooms are daily sterilization, or giving the customer the option not to change sheets or simply do cleaners in doing so, but while maintaining their safety by providing them with all known protections of gloves, protective masks, etc., and of course sterilizers will be found everywhere, in the room And outside it, and it will be necessary to use it, knowing that the room equipment from controllers and others will be completely packed, to be replaced after each change of customers.
It is also possible to turn the morning buffet into food baskets, containing the desire of the customer recorded from the night before, so that customers can enjoy their breakfast in the hotel's designated halls, provided that they maintain safety distances with other customers, knowing that there are also suggestions to separate tables with glass panels Or transparent plastic, to further achieve insulation. In restaurants, table wiping will be replaced by napkins, by other means of sterilization, which may be manual sterilization sprays carried by the facility's workers. In order to reserve a place early, it is better, and sometimes it is obligatory to avoid it.
the end of the world
"It will look like the end of the world, but it is not, of course," according to the director of the luxury Plaza Espana Group, Perez Jimenez, to El Pais.
But all this is not final, as the same applies to open skies as well, from beaches, mountain resorts and others.
According to Tourism Minister Reyes Maruto said earlier, this summer will be one of the most unusual seasons in the history of Spain and perhaps the world.
And it warns that the human density that the country's beaches usually witness, especially the famous Costa Brava, will not be possible this season, and that going down to the sea will be subject to the same restrictions on general social movement, from safety distances and the identification of very small groups, until a vaccine is reached for the virus, which is what It is not clear yet.
This means, among other things, the need to organize domestic tourism as well. The Spanish are fond of the sun and gathering, but this will not be possible and will be subject to regulation, which is through the imposition of a specific program for each residential area and with specific dates, to reduce the possibility of gatherings, as possible on the beaches. Crazy ideas, similar to those presented by Achila directors and writers in science fiction films, disaster literature, or future prediction.
But they are ideas the world needs as it appears now, to reduce the size of the economic disasters caused by this epidemic, and to revive some of the possibility of human rebellion for what it caused.
Among the proposals put forward to reassure tourists and encourage them to return to Spain will be the preparation of health certificates for public hotels confirming that they are in line with public health procedures, linked mainly to the emerging coronary virus epidemic.
Spain needs to organize domestic tourism. The Spanish are fond of the sun and gathering, but this will not be possible, and it will be subject to regulation, which is by imposing a specific program for each residential area with agreed dates, to reduce the possibility of gatherings as possible on the beaches.