Spain aims to reopen to overseas holidaymakers from June under the Covid digital health certificate scheme, the country’s secretary of state for tourism has said. Valdés said Spain would participate in a pilot digital-certificate scheme in May and would be “ready to receive visitors in June”. He said the new scheme – and Spain’s vaccine rollout – represented “a before and an after” in comparison with the situation last year, but he stressed the certificates were “not a magic wand”. Spain, which depends on tourism for about 12 per cent of its GDP, is in its fourth wave of the pandemic. Spain is the most popular foreign destination for Irish holidaymakers, with about two million trips taken in 2019.

Source: The Irish Times April 28, 2021 08:58 UTC