MOSCOW, 20 APR — RIA Novosti. Turkey plans to introduce certification of tourism facilities on the security from COVID-19 and compliance with hygiene standards, according to ATOR, with reference to the Minister of tourism and culture Mehmet Ersoy.
the Project will start in may. Hotel certification will be voluntary, but in essence, mandatory, because without it the hotel will not allow to service foreign tourists. It will affect reception and leisure guests. It will need to go to the airlines, transport, hotels, museums, restaurants and their employees.
the Objects of certification, and the first hotels will be required to ensure social distancing, regular sterilization, health checks for staff and to provide their employees with means of individual protection.
it is Expected that the tourist and the host company will receive certificates by the end of may.
the Minister stressed that the input system is not a “plan out of the coronavirus” and “user priority” which now will follow Turkey.
According to Mehmet Ersoy, the situation of coronavirus is normalized by the second week of may, which will allow you to run intercity and open the resorts – but only for local.
He believes that the arrival of foreign tourists will not begin before mid-June, and the Russians in this process, the first will not. The restoration of the foreign stream will start with the Asian markets, then will come the turn of Germany and Austria, where the situation of coronavirus is now improving rapidly. Further, Turkey is waiting for the guests from the countries of Central Europe and some countries of Northern Europe.
“the Uncertainty in Russia and the UK. They can only come at the end of July,” says Ersoy.
