Travel

Most hotels in the largest seaside resort in Bulgaria - Sunny Beach will close for the season by September 10. The reason is the lack of charter flights and tourists to choose the months of September and October for their summer vacation.

The Çamlıkoy Nature Park, which houses different shades of green, a clean sea, and camping and recreation areas, has become the preferred hotspot for local tourists during the pandemic with its proximity to Istanbul and its unique nature.

Turkish foreign minister on June 12 called on Germany to lift travel warning for Turkey.
Speaking to German weekly Der Spiegel, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu commented on Germany's decision to lift travel warning for EU countries while extending it for all other countries until Aug. 31.

Germany and Turkey are in talks to evaluate if Ankara could be granted an exemption from Berlin's travel warning issued for all countries outside the EU, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said on June 11.

A 14-day home quarantine was lifted on June 11 for Turkish expats visiting homeland, said a top official of a Turkish state agency.

"During the summer period, we will assist our citizens abroad who are on a journey to homeland," said Abdullah Eren, head of Turkey's Presidency for Turks Abroad and Related Communities (YTB), in a statement.

The German Federal Minister of Interior, Horst Seehofer has decided to lift the majority of existing border controls at the internal borders on June 15, after estimating that the level of the Coronavirus pandemic allows such a step to be taken.

Germany's "travel warning" for non-EU countries should not be interpreted as a "travel ban" for citizens who want to travel to Turkey or other countries, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson said on June 10. 

Domestic tourism in Turkey has begun as it returns to "new normal," and the country is revving up efforts to
gradually reopen to international travelers.
In this regard, hotels have started to design their facilities, including buffets, lobbies and pools, to maintain social distancing.

One after the other, the big Greek hotels are getting ready to open, with most of them expected to start taking in customers on July 1st.

The large hotel groups are having to make choices about which of their hotels to open, given the large drop in demand due to the pandemic.

After the reopening of the Periscope Hotel in Kolonaki, along with many other year-round hotels across the country, YES! Hotels announced that its Semiramis Hotel in Kifissia will also reopen on June 15, followed on July 1 by the New Hotel in Syntagma.