The Russian Foreign Ministry called the condition for opening tourist trips to Turkey
The Russian Foreign Ministry has published an overview of the plans of various countries to remove restrictions imposed in connection with the pandemic.
The document calls for the return of tourism to Turkey.
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that the ministry receives appeals from citizens who planned to travel abroad for tourist, business, humanitarian purposes.
The diplomat promised to publish on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs an overview of the intentions of various countries to remove restrictions and facilitate the border crossing regime.
The material is published on the website of the foreign Ministry. It is too early to talk about specific dates for “opening borders for Russians on popular European tourist destinations” because “the threat of the spread of the coronavirus on a global scale has not yet been overcome.”
Some hopes for Russians to spend a vacation abroad diplomats left. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation reports that “recreation in Turkey will be possible after the completion of sanitary and epidemiological certification of tourist facilities.”
In Turkey Named the first 12 hotels that received certificates from the Ministry of Tourism to work in new conditions. Most likely, the certification of hotels in Antalya will be held in June-July.
Turkey is the only country in the document on the rest of our citizens, which stipulates a condition.
In Greece The opening of its external borders will take place on a bilateral basis with those countries where the severity of the coronavirus situation is decreasing.
There is cautious optimism about Cyprus. Russia has not yet been included in the list of 19 countries whose citizens are allowed to enter: “With regard to Russia, the situation may become clearer in the second half of June.”
S Bulgaria Restoration of tourist flow from Russia has not yet been discussed.
If the situation develops well, we can expect that European countries will open up to each other in June-July. It is only then that a decision is likely to be made on whether to open the EU’s external borders.”
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs stresses that in the case of Austria. Hungary. Germany. Poland. Slovakia. Czech Republic.Switzerland It is too early to talk about restoring full-fledged international transport links and tourist exchanges with Russia.
The situation in the Baltic states is more optimistic. Possible steps towards lifting restrictions on the entry of Russians for tourist purposes in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia will depend on the stabilization of the situation with the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic both in the Baltic States and in Russia.
There is no prospect of opening borders. China. India. The situation is not rosy for the countries of Southeast Asia (including Vietnam, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand). “The lack of regular international and in some cases domestic air traffic also excludes the possibility of resuming tourist exchanges in the near future,” the ministry said.
Russian diplomats have no information about the opening of borders for foreign tourists by the governments of India, Nepal, Sri Lanka.
The Russian Foreign Ministry believes that the opening of borders by African countries (Kenya, Mauritius and Zanzibar) for Russians is “unlikely.” The same situation in Latin America: Cuba, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Peru, Brazil, Argentina, Jamaica.
Source: atorus