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The Government is already working on a plan that envisages a summer without foreign tourism, with the borders closed in this case. But also with measures to restrict national mobility, the use of masks in public transport and the maintenance of the distances recommended by the health authorities. In this scenario, the most impactful measure for the national economy would be the one that turns black on white: border closure (total or partial), which would mean that the powerful flow of international tourism did not enter and instead the promotion of national tourism throughout the summer as a holiday alternative.
A double-direction measurement for both inputs and outputs. That is, that the Spaniards get to the idea that in the summer period, no one will leave the national territory, unless a specific health certificate recommends it. Such a measure would, of course, be subject to this and other exceptions, as envisaged in each phase change decreed by the Government, including the state of alarm declared on 14 March and in successive extensions.
The Government will call this new scenario "the return to normality", a message that has been sliding the government's first swords. But this "return to normal" that could occur from 26 April in certain "non-essential" works will not be normal in its entire dimension if, as ABC has known, travel within the country will remain limited. In public transport, train and coach trips, the sanitary measures will be very restrictive: 30% of the ticket will not be sold, and if this percentage is extended, it will always be taking into account the capacity of the chosen convoys and vehicles. To give an example: in a car you can travel a couple and their children, respecting the meter and a half of dictated estrangement. Of course the idea is the reduction of agglomerations both in events and in certain spaces. And in summer you can go to the beach? This point has not been closed, but the limitation of the capacity in the sands is one of the measures that epidemiological and scientific experts would have advised and the Government should consider. But it will be very difficult to see the images of all the years of tourists contesting the first line of the beach or those crowded beaches.
Among the Executive's plans would also include the reinforcement of national tourism, which would range from aid to rural tourism to enhance this way of "staying at home", in reference to the national map, and also the reinforcement of transport measures that meant that citizens did not always have to travel in their private vehicles, but could reach a rural house inland , for example, if it is your chosen destination, on a regular train or coach line and without the risk of contagion.
Boosting national tourism
This plan that has already been put on the table of the Ministry of Transport, José Luis Abalos, would have one objective: to ensure that during the summer months no unnecessary risks are taken that would cause a "second wave of epidemiological" from September, as foreseen by public health specialists. Yesterday, the Minister of Industry, Tourism and Commerce, Reyes Maroto, acknowledged at a press conference that work is being done on several scenarios to recover in a "progressive" way the tourism sector, which contributes 12% of Spain's total GDP and 13% of employment. In this context, Maroto acknowledged that it will be national tourism that "will recover first", although he did not want to specify whether international travel will be restricted this summer.
The Ministry is already working on a campaign to boost inland tourism and strengthen certain public infrastructures, such as the Paradores. The Government's obsession is to ensure that the summer season is "safe," as Maroto acknowledged yesterday, even if this is to lengthen the economic crisis of companies in the sector. Both hotel and airline airlines privately acknowledge that the summer season is already virtually lost because of the restrictions that European governments will impose on air transport. When these rise, or at least relax, in the tourism sector they assume that demand will suffer from a crisis of confidence of international tourists, who will think twice before travelling to Spain, one of the focuses of the pandemic in Europe.
Controlling autumn
Being as prepared as possible for autumn and winter 2021 is already a concern of the Government and experts. And for that control what happens in summer can be fundamental. Government sources want to value future scenarios very cautiously. Summer will surely be exceptional, but a member of the Executive insists that "nothing is decided".
But the Government is already working on all these scenarios, and we also study the de-escalation analyses of several private institutions where international tourism is not considered open until the autumn. But despite caution, several members of the Council of Ministers endorse this scenario of a summer in an exclusively national key. "It is impossible at this moment to predict anything, although international tourism I see it virtually impossible," acknowledges a member of the Government.
Another cabinet partner abounds in this idea: "International tourism will take time", he says, because prior to the reopening of borders, connectivity should be "recomposed" and provided as "means to ensure that they do not spread". Spain is being one of the countries most hit by this crisis. But at the same time other countries are delayed in the scene of contagion and deceased. The problem is coming to Spain but also in leaving Spain: "We have to regain confidence that it does not affect health coming to Spain, but we also have to have the confidence that they will not bring us the virus", they assure us that it must be an issue that "must be focused from the international level".
