Australia is a country for adventurers and discoverers - only tourists have been denied entry for almost two years.
Now the travel ban has been extended again.
Due to the corona pandemic, Australia has been keeping its borders closed to foreign tourists for a year and a half.
According to current media reports, the travel ban, which was originally planned until September 17th, is now to be extended by three months until December.
After that, tourism could finally get a boost again.
Corona pandemic: Australia postpones openings
Australia has extended the so-called "Biosecurity Emergency Period"
to December 17th
. The online portal
executivetraveller.com
reports on this
.
This means that the borders will remain closed until then and international tourism will be largely curbed.
It is noticeable that the Australian airline Qantas is only planning to resume air traffic for some international routes one day later, on December 18th.
Coincidence is hard to think of here and Qantas CEO Alan Joyce more or less confirmed this when he presented the latest flight program last week: "It is obviously up to the government how and when we reopen our international borders." He shared his plans with the government "and they agree with our rough assessments and believe that our plan is sensible."
Also interesting
: the popular travel destination is not expected to open to tourists until the end of 2022.
Australia: Advances in Corona Vaccinations
So far, however, it is not known how to deal with international tourists when the borders reopen in December.
So far, there has been a 14-day hotel quarantine for travelers.
In order to make a trip to Australia attractive, travel corridors would have to be established.
At least the vaccination campaign in Australia is making progress: So far, according to the Australian Ministry of Health,
37.1 percent of the population over the age of 16 have been fully vaccinated
, while 61.3 percent have received at least one vaccination dose (as of September 2).
The government's goal is a vaccination quota of 80 percent - the government's four-stage schedule stipulates that the borders should be reopened from then on.
(fk)
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