Print Friendly, PDF & Email
Pitane Image

After two years of practically no travel to destinations outside the EU due to dissuasive travel advice from the government, the understanding of ANVR travel organizations, a large part of which is still closed, is now hard to find. And once again the travel sector is being hit hard; this time due to the inconsistent, not yet (correctly) elaborated quarantine policy that the cabinet announced last Friday.

"The patience at travel organizations is slowly running out. Of course, we have to take into account the measures regarding travel and corona, but then promised adjustments in the field of travel advice with regard to outside the EU must be taken once and quarantine rules must be implemented consistently" .

When asked where the shoe pinches, he is clear and outspoken. “During the last press conference, Rutte and Kuipers reported that people who have had a booster or have recovered from corona no longer need to be quarantined, even if they have had contact with an infected person. But the same government says on its website that travelers who return from a very high-risk area, have also been fully vaccinated or recovered and have a negative PCR test, that they must be quarantined for 10 days upon return. How inconsistent do you want to be? This again costs our travel companies a lot of money, because nobody wants to quarantine for another 10 days after their often postponed foreign holiday and therefore cancels."

Travel umbrella organization ANVR has regularly received signals from the government that it expects 'soon' to be able to adjust the orange travel advice of many countries outside the EU. With the increasing vaccination rate, the less pathogenic omicron variant, the measures that ANVR travel companies are taking safely and responsibly, plus the enthusiasm of travelers who now want to leave, the travel sector is urging the government to provide travel advice as quickly as possible where responsibly feasible. possible to adjust.
Also, the ANVR believes that in this phase of the pandemic ('learning to live with it') it is also time to disconnect the corona advice from the original travel advice as it was once intended. 

Also read: Most Dutch people plan to go on holiday

Travelers returning to the Netherlands from a very high-risk country must be quarantined for 10 days.