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Brett Gibbons

Spain confident Covid passports will let in UK holidaymakers within weeks

Spain's tourism bosses are confident the sun-kissed country will be welcoming back UK tourists in a matter of weeks.

Officials have claimed a Covid passport will be ready for use by travellers by May 19.

Local media report the government in Madrid claim plans for a vaccine certificate were well-advanced.

Spain's Tourism minister Reyes Maroto told a TV interview the first digital passports could be implemented by May 19.

The vaccine passport, being developed in co-operation with the European Union, will show if travellers have been given the vaccine or if they have registered a negative test.

Ministers are confident it will be ready for the start of the summer holiday season.

Talks on the prospects of establishing safe travel corridors between the UK and Spain and Greece are already underway.

British tourists may be allowed to resume international travel by May 17, depending on the recommendations of the UK Government Global Travel Taskforce.

Germany plans to lift travel restrictions to Spain's Balearic Islands this Friday, March 12. However, most airlines will wait until the end of the month before resuming flights to the islands, which include Majorca, Menorca and Ibiza.

Airlines operating in the German market will commence flight schedules with Majorca on March 26 because of low infections in the Balearic Islands.

Tui in Germany will begin its summer operations with the Island on March 27, which is the date hotel chains in the main tourist areas will start opening for the season.

Spain has extended travel restrictions from the UK until 6pm on March 30. The country's government on Tuesday agreed to keep the measures in place on air and sea arrivals from Britain.

A government spokesperson said the measure to extend the restrictions for two more weeks was intended to contain the spread of any new variants.

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