The government is considering plans to open up to incoming tourism in the spring, provided the infection rate in Greece becomes stable and stricter measures can be avoided.
The criteria for implementing these plans are the progress of the pandemic in Greece and the progress of Israel’s efforts to vaccinate the entire population through mass vaccination.
Currently, Israel is piloting not only the plans of the Greek and other governments, but also multinational pharmaceutical companies that have been given access to details of the population’s infection rates in exchange for more vaccines against Israel.
If the picture in Israel is encouraging and Greece manages to get past its current wave of infections, the government is ready to open its borders from April 1, subject to certain conditions, according to sources who attended a recent meeting.
“If not from April 1st, then in the following weeks and definitely before Greek Orthodox Easter on May 2nd,” the same sources say.
Greece expects travel costs to amount to 11 billion euros this year, after only 4.5 billion euros in 2020.
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