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Varying COVID Guidelines Complicate Reopening of European Tourism Sector

Marthe van der Wolf

   AMSTERDAM - Europe's tourism sector has lost out on weeks of revenue
   because of the coronavirus lockdown. Now that countries are planning to
   gradually reopen, potential tourists are facing different rules and
   safety guidelines across the continent.
   Jan Nak is newly retired and was planning to camp around Portugal for
   the month of May with his wife. But due to the coronavirus, the Dutch
   couple opted to rent a summerhouse in the Netherlands instead.

   "As we didn't get ill up until now, and my wife is still working, we
   said OK, we don't take any risk and we stay in the Netherlands. And if
   you travel, you are a danger for another person as well. So, we didn't
   want to endanger other people, and [wanted] to protect ourselves. We
   said, 'If we can't go this year, we go next year.'"

   Southern and Mediterranean European countries attract millions of
   tourists like Nak and his wife each year.

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