If the government relaxes advice to travelers, who right now do not recommend the non-necessary travel to most of the world up to 31. august, travel agents in approximately two weeks to be ready to send people off on holiday.
It assesses the Lars Thykier, managing director of the trade association the Danish Travel agency Association, which represents about 100 small and medium-sized travel companies in Denmark.
the Ministry of foreign affairs informs that the government is working to open up earlier for trips abroad to some countries. However, it is unknown what the a possible easing of the concrete will cover over.
Lars Thykier imagine that you could allow travel to the EU countries from 1. July.
– The earlier, the better. We get to know on Monday the 15. June, that one has listened to the EU Commission, who have recommended that the open borders in the EU-countries, and we get about 15 days to schedule, you can get a charterrejse from 1. July, he believes.
He says, that it is almost the same, will be able to create individual travel to the people, while the total package deals for charter trips would require about two weeks ‘ time.
now, The big question is however, whether the danes even have the desire to travel, ” says Lars Thykier.
For the missions will need to be ordered with very short notice.
– If you are not sure that you can get the plane filled virtually completely up, there is actually no profit in what you are doing, he says.
Henrik Specht, director of tour Operators in Denmark, there is charterarrangørernes trade association think, however, that it will take longer than two weeks to be ready to provide packages.
– It will take some time to get the opportunity to deliver the products. There must also be enough customers, we have the opportunity to sell trips to, say, Henrik Specht.
From the Monday advised against travel to Germany, Iceland and Norway no longer, while non-necessary travel to the rest of the world is still not recommended.
A measurement, as Kantar Gallup has made for the insurance companies Gjensidige Insurance and Gouda travel Insurance, shows that some danes have considered to take on a sommerrejse, despite the fact that it is not recommended for most countries – almost every tenth.
Although a part of danes are so fond of, that they are ready to defy the current travel advice, believes Lars Thykier, it is difficult to predict whether the interest, if the opening for more foreign travel.
In a normal year without coronakrise will approximately two million danes travel out in June and July, he says.
– But there is a very large uncertainty in the estimate of what people want in years, he says.
