Stricter coronavirus measures on the Mediterranean island’s airports aiming to curb the Omicron variant unfold may be short-term however none the much less fairly unfavourable for tourism.
That is what Deputy Minister for Tourism Savvas Perdios advised Philenews on Tuesday, including that quite a lot of cancellations did happen since December 6 when the brand new measures got here in impact.
That’s, all vacationers arriving by way of air should take a PCR take a look at on arrival on the airport no matter vaccination or restoration standing at their very own expense – which is €15 every.
Extra measures apply for vacationers from the UK as of final Saturday.
The Minister didn’t wish to give attention to the British market alone, saying that any resolution taken that make it tough to maneuver round are apparent that they result in cancellations.
“We might imagine that it doesn’t have tourism now I the winter so stricter measures don’t have an effect on it a lot however it’s not like that,” he stated.
“And we now have to persuade our companions overseas that these measures are – certainly – short-term and that we all know the way to proceed into 2022,” he added.