THE HAGUE - The Dutch cabinet has decided to issue a negative travel advice during the Christmas holidays for holidays abroad. The Outbreak Management Team, the government's chief advisor during the corona crisis, advised this. The cabinet is following this advice.
This means that holiday travel is not recommended during that period. The advice has dramatic consequences for Curaçao, Hans Slier, chairman of CHATA, announced last week. Many hotels and restaurants are currently running on their last reserves. If the important Dutch tourism market disappears, many hotels and restaurants on Curaçao will go bankrupt, Slier warned.
The Outbreak Management Team is afraid that people will take the virus with them from ski areas, for example. At the beginning of this year, people became infected during holidays to snow areas in Italy and Austria, after which the virus spread in the Netherlands. Hence they want a general, negative travel advice. The Dutch government will hold a press conference on Tuesday.