From now on, various travel companies, affiliated with the travel industry organization ANVR, will carry out trips to all kinds of destinations worldwide at the request of travelers.
Now that almost 80% of Dutch people aged 18+ have been fully vaccinated and support measures, according to the cabinet, are no longer necessary because there are practically no more restrictive measures, the travel sector sees room to provide safe and responsible travel to both destinations within and outside the Netherlands. outside of Europe.
The ANVR assumes, as announced during the press conference of Tuesday 14 September by outgoing Prime Minister Mark Rutte, that the cabinet, when "looking exactly at what kind of support is needed" for the catering industry, will also include the badly affected travel sector in this.
In recent weeks, the umbrella organization has emphatically urged the government to extend support measures and will continue to do so in the coming weeks. Travel companies, and especially long-distance travel specialists who have been completely shut down for 1,5 years, desperately need this support. All the more so since all travel advice for destinations outside Europe will not yet be yellow.
The main obstacle to traveling and vacations to destinations outside the European Union is still the negative travel advice from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Travel companies have not been able to do business for more than 1,5 years, while the world is now really different, according to the travel umbrella. In determining travel advice, the Dutch government could take a good example from its German colleagues, who have lifted the quarantine obligation for vaccinated travelers upon return. And if you don't have to quarantine after your return, the destination country is also safe enough to go to.
Frank Oostdam, chairman ANVR: “Our advice to the cabinet to adjust the current travel advice worldwide to yellow or even green is simply because it is really possible. The successful vaccination campaign already ensures that almost 80% of people are fully vaccinated, who should, of course, be able to travel freely worldwide, taking into account the measures taken by travel service providers and local governments. And many travelers want that too, our travel organizations notice!”
In anticipation of possible adjustments to travel advice in the autumn, as the ministry announced in a conversation with the ANVR last week, some travel companies are already carrying out trips to orange destinations, but only if they make the trip properly and safely. can provide without impossible entry restrictions and if the customer wants it.
If the customer has booked a trip to an orange destination and the travel company can carry out the trip responsibly and safely at the time of departure, nothing stands in the way of carrying out the trip to this orange destination. If the customer has booked to a yellow destination and the destination changes to orange before departure, the customer has the option of going or rebooking his trip in consultation with the travel organization.
The ANVR assumes, and also calls on travel insurers, that in this changing world of travel, they also take up their role in insured travel. In addition, the ANVR invites the cabinet and the ministry to make travel possible again worldwide in consultation with the travel sector by adjusting travel advice.
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The ANVR completely ignores the regulations of the holiday country.
The ANVR wrongly assumes that insurance companies help them at the expense of their own income. Read payout claims if this is not necessary according to the rules due to the color coding.
No, you just got that completely wrong.
The thing is: the regulations of the holiday country are completely irrelevant. A Dutch insurer has nothing to do with that. What it DOES matter is the coding (green, yellow, orange, red) of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. If it says “Country A is red, country B is green”, then according to the applicable policy (according to Dutch law!!) the insurance in country A would not cover anything.
What the ANVR now wants (in my opinion rightly so) is that the Ministry does not necessarily throw everything outside Europe on orange or red, but tailor-made advice per country. Only then can insurers also pay out (which is not their hobby, but their work and they can then possibly be held accountable for this "in court"). And only then can the Dutch go on holiday with peace of mind (because they are insured!)
Dennis is absolutely right. Countries should be assessed individually. If the situation there is reasonable to good, then yellow or green is appropriate. Not like last year where there were almost 0 infections in Thailand and Thailand was still on orange. And Dennis is also absolutely right about the insurance companies. They just seize every opportunity to avoid having to pay. There were many countries during the corona crisis where the risk was lower than in the Netherlands. Yet insurance would not pay out because they only rely on the general advice and not on the actual risk. Again the example Thailand in the first year of conona.
I agree with you. How many infections have come from the southern European countries. Then we may be properly vaccinated, but in African countries it is drama. It is not yet known which variants will be developed there. A large number of infected people come from Gambia, among others. Is in the top 10 most infected in the UK. Vaccinated people can still get this and a new variant may be even worse. Think. Only travel when the vaccination rate in the country in question is 70%, I have heard before