COVID-19: Germany lifts travel warning for top tourism destinations in Turkey

Recently Germany has lifted travel warning against four Turkish seaside provinces, which reportedly have low cases of coronavirus infection. This step is seen as to revive dipping tourism sector between Germany and Turkey. According to media reports German foreign ministry has dropped warning against travel to Antalya, Izmir, Muğla, and Aydin, se are famous tourist destinations on Mediterranean, where COVID-19 cases are less.

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According to International media reports, German government spokeswoman Ulrike Demmer said Turkey has focused on hygiene in se four areas in order to allow safe tourism. Tourists arriving from Germany have to show a negative coronavirus test taken within 48 hours before leaving Germany to Turkish authority. In month of June, Government of Germany h decided to lift international travel warning only for European Union nations Schengen-associated countries but extended it for all or countries, including Turkey till end of August.

list came in June in which European Union h decided to exclude Turkey and United States with or countries recommended for nessential travel. Turkey was t happy with list and h called Germany and bloc for a reversal, citing measures taken to combat pandemic as well as its efforts and successes.

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German-Turkey relation

According to reports, three million Germans out of 80 million German inhabitants have a Turkish ethnic background and Turkish coastal area historically is among most popular tourist destination for Germans of all ethnicities.  According to German Travel Association, in 2019 Turkey was second most popular tourist destination for Germans after Spain, nearly 5 million German tourists traveled to Turkey that year. Opening one of German’s favorite tourist destinations will boost tourism sector.

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