Name: Coronavirus: We will have summer tourist season, promises EU - BBC News
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the European Union has been setting out proposals for a gradual resumption of travel and tourism as the industry tries to survive following the Corona virus lockdowns.

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Here's the You Commissioner Margarita vast era outlining the measures we need carefully re open borders within Europe.

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So we have adopted guidance for member states on a gradual, coordinated lifting off restrictions on the free movements in Europe.

Second, people need, of course, to be able to travel between European countries.

So we're giving guidance on how to gradually reopen transport links without risking the health of travelers or transport workers, third travelers and workers.

They need to know that the place is that tourism visits that they are safe photos, restaurants, beaches, other tourist sites.

They need to be run in a way that minimizes the risk of passing on the Corona virus Well.

Tourism normally accounts for 10% of the EU's economic output.

On these plans involve countries working together to gradually remove travel bans and then border checks.

Germany has announced that there will be a gradual easing of its border controls starting from the 16th of May, when its border crossings, where France, Switzerland and Austria will be opened for more on the German government's position.

We heard from Angela Merkel today who I think, given her love of the European Project on the internal market, is very keen to start reopening borders.

But Germany's position is that it's not simply a matter of what the infection rates are like in this neighboring states.

It's also to do with what kind of measures are in place.

So, she said today, there's no point in reopening a German border with a neighboring country if restrictions and measures aren't symmetrical either side of those borders.

So I think there's a lot more work to be done.

Although Germany has now said that come the middle of June, it will lift border restrictions as long as a number of those caveats are met and of course, chief among them is the question of how well those neighboring countries are doing when it comes to keeping the outbreak under control.

Well, another country that has a huge interest in reopening its borders to tourists is Greece, and here's the Greek minister for tourism.

We will safeguard the health off both our population and our visitors by ensuring.

Other said that depending on the agreements that would make with other countries and on a European level, that we can use either tests or other means to limit the risk off, stranding the device.

So their strategy is testing and on a grand scale.

But before the pandemic, Greece used to receive around 30 million foreign visitors a year.

So it's going to be a huge undertaking to ensure that tourism there this year does not spread the virus well for more on how the new you travel guidelines will actually work in practice, his are Europe editor Catchy Adler.

Public health and national borders in time of crisis, that's up to you members to decide for themselves what happens, and it will be the same when it comes to tourism, each you country will decide for itself when to open its beaches and its borders to European tourists.

Brussels can only advise, and the advice today was slowly, slowly yes.

K's have been hard hit by covert 19 and tourism is an important part of the economy, especially from Mediterranean countries like Spain and like France.

But the commission advises that nobody should open for tourism unless they've got very good testing on tracing capacity for covert 19 on unless they're strict controls on transport on accommodation and leisure activities.

Unlike with all of the lifting of lock down measures, if there's a new spike in infections than travel, restrictions could be reintroduced pretty quickly.

So basically, don't pack your summer swimsuit just yet.

Well, I want to put that point by cats here, Teoh Tom Hall, who is vice president of experience at the Lonely Planet Tom.

So are your appendages are saying, Don't pack your swimsuit just yet.

How is this going toe workout in reality?

Well, I think that most holidaymakers be optimised.

But of course, key points in all of this is this is going to be a slow process.

It's going country by country or region by region.

Some countries are, well, early summer, very another very just a huge amount of lots of questions.

So are we going to be looking at these kind of border bubbles like the Baltic bubble with Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania initially easing travel restrictions or Germany, Austria, France, easing travel restrictions between those countries, countries going to group up.

In that case, Yeah, but I think that is a definite early steps that we're going to see clearly.

We're already talking about some of those that you talk about travel possibly into in the UK and Ireland and France being a possibility earlier before you could get the other destinations on.

The very first thing is actually domestic travel.

You know, people either going to bronze or maybe taking a holiday a little, a little bit closer to home.

And I think one of the most robot areas that demand at the moment across is for domestic travel and perfectly self catering.

We don't really know what's happening with a lot of hotels in camps home.

And so they revealed people looking for a month.

That means planning a holiday home on when it comes to testing, being at the forefront of enabling people to travel.

When you hear figures like 30 million people crossing into Greece for the over the holiday period, that's an awful lot of testing.

Well, you know, tourists, anybody traveling over the next few months is going to experience business very much unusual a series of new experiences and this whole question more testing a scale like that, what it might like and how it might work in conjunction tracing at You know, we've heard that the idea of tracing up leave me a pan European initiative on very unusual experiences when people are passing through airports and on planes.

Ryanair announced there planning on resuming 40% of flights but unique to the toilet.

You will need to have a couple of a process flowing through the airport.

Was possible mark result in significant cues are last in some cases, result in people moving through areas of airports much slower than they have done in the past.

And then when people get their possibly enforced distance teaches on din, you know, other leisure facility.

So quite a few announced questions, but certainly the future state of travel needs is gonna be a few more hurdles to get through quietly sacrifices in order for people to get somewhere and enjoy a But in all of that, having people been through the last few months, the idea of a holiday, the hell of it.

I think he's going to still be a very, very strong Tom.

Tom Hall there from The Lonely Planet's and apologies to our viewers for a bit of a drop out there in Tom's line.

 But I think you get the gist of what he was saying that it's not gonna be business as usual, certainly not any time soon. 