Protocols have already been approved for use in the Canary Islands and Balearic Islands.
According to Spanish Tourism Minister Reyes Maroto, vaccine passports will be included in the protocol for reopening tourism in Spain, which will allow tourists to travel to the country and its surrounding islands this summer.
On Monday, Reyes Maroto told journalists that these ‘passports’ will be integrated into their ‘safe travel’ corridor scheme as an element for ‘safe mobility’. ‘We already have safety protocols in place but we want to take another step to help restart travel as soon as the coronavirus situation allows for it’, she said in her statement. The Tourism Minister added that if the vaccination programme goes as planned, this will ‘give hope and certainty that the second semester of 2021 will be when the reactivation of the tourism sector’ takes place.
Tourism represents of the largest industries in Spain, as the country receives some 80 million tourists each year.
