Despite a travel warning from the federal government, the world's largest travel company Tui wants to start offering trips to a popular holiday destination again from October 3, 2020.
Tui is
currently
struggling with travel warnings from the Foreign Office
, for example for Spain including the Balearic and Canary Islands - a popular holiday destination for Germans and British.
"Since the resumption of business, 1.4 million customers have gone on vacation with us," said Tui boss Fritz Joussen, referring to the period from mid-June to the end of August.
“The availability of destinations is currently strongly influenced by the political assessment and the development of the pandemic.
We are currently operating in a volatile market environment and this will probably continue to be the case in the coming quarters, ”explained the manager.
Tui wants to bring vacationers to the Canaries despite the travel warning
Despite a travel warning from the federal government *, travel operator Tui wants to start offering trips to the Canary Islands again from October 3, 2020.
For package tours to the Canary Islands, vacationers should be able to decide for themselves whether they will start their vacation
when they return to Germany,
despite the risk of infection and possible
quarantine
, said the tourism group's head of Germany, Marek Andryszak, to the newspapers of the Funke media group.
“We firmly assume that many customers will weigh this carefully.” He believes that the opportunity to be tested will mean that many customers will go on vacation despite the travel warning.
Since the travel warning for
all of Spain, Tui has significantly reduced flights to the Canary Islands.
"In the meantime we have made preparations so that we can resume trips to the Canary Islands from October 3rd - despite the travel warning," said Andryszak.
The travel company is not opposed to the federal government - the travel warnings are not a travel ban, but a recommendation to be careful.
“And that's exactly what we're following,” he said.
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Tui is further streamlining travel offers for winter
Otherwise
,
Tui has
tended to reduce its travels in view of new travel warnings due to the Covid 19 pandemic
.
For the winter season, the company cut around a fifth of the offer, which means that around 40 percent of the original program is still available, as the company announced on Tuesday according to the German press agency.
"This reflects the continuing uncertainty with regard to travel restrictions," said Tui.
(sca / dpa) * Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen editorial network.
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