Balearic government to pay for repatriation costs of tourists
The Balearic government will cover the cost of repatriation for tourists if they have tested positive for Covid while in the Balearics and are therefore unable to take their scheduled flights home
The government has designed a 'Safety Pack', which contains various measures to guarantee visitor safety and promote confidence in Spain’s Balearic Islands as a tourist destination.
Tourism Director General, Rosana Morillo, explained that an update would be given to tour operators on all health coverage measures, ‘including the insurance policy for repatriation or return to the normal place of residence, as well as an interpreter service and compensation for an extended stay caused by Covid’. The cost of all this, she said, ‘will be borne by the Aetib strategic tourism agency and will cover non-resident tourists in the Balearics who stay in regulated accommodation’.
Free accommodation and interpreter services
However, if tourists stay in unregistered accommodation, such as an apartment without a tourism ministry licence, the insurance will not be valid.
The policy provides free quarantine accommodation in ‘bridge hotels’ that the government has set up for tourists who develop mild Covid symptoms or are asymptomatic. An interpreter service will also be available. The Safety Pack further refers to the price cap for PCR and antigen tests (€75 and €30 respectively) that the government has established and to the SafeBeach app that gives real-time information about beach capacity in six languages – Catalan, Spanish, English, German, French and Italian.