Jorge Marichal, president of the hotel and non-hotel management association of the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Ashotel), highlighted this Tuesday that there are fears that there will be holiday delays or even cancellations of British tourists for this Christmas after the imposition of a double negative test.
In a statement released by the employer’s association, it has assumed that the new restrictions “are not going to be good at all” and they add to the previous decision of the European Union (EU) to request a complete vaccination schedule for young people between 12 and 16 years of age, which “made their trips impossible” since until a week ago the double guideline had not been approved. in the United Kingdom.
Marichal has regretted that “now they hang down with double PCR”, something that “greatly increases the cost” of the trip, underlining that one “falls into the same errors” again when the pandemic is “global” and “responsible and clear” measures must be taken to allow there to be a “normality” in the development of the economy.
Thus, he has pointed out that it is “bad news” for tourism, especially for destinations that depend more on British tourists, such as the Canary Islands, and “one more notch on the revolver for this covid that is doing so much damage to the economy and, most importantly, to health.”
