Belgium government removes Valencian Community from Red List
Belgium government removes Valencian community from its Red List this includes Benidorm.
The red list are countries and regions to which it is not "at all recommended" to travel to by Belgium Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The evolution of the coronavirus pandemic in Valencia, Alicante and Castelló now has one of the lowest incidences per 100,000 inhabitants throughout the national territory, which has motivated this decision.
The Valencian Community and the Canary Islands are the only two Spanish territories to which the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade, Cooperation and Development of Belgium will allow its citizens to visit without requiring PCR evidence and quarantine upon their return.
The coloured map used by the Belgium ministry keeps the entire Spanish state in red, except for the Valencian and Canary Islands Communities, which remain orange. This colour code implies that, when a Belgium citizen returns from a trip in one of the risk zones in red in the last 14 days, they must keep a seven-day quarantine and take a test on the fifth day of his stay in Belgium.
Belgium removes Valencian Community from Red List
However, from this moment on, Belgian tourists will be able to visit the Valencian Community without having to undergo that period of confinement since the Flemish government has reduced the risk of infection in the Valencian territory.
Travelling from Belgium to a red zone is currently "authorized but not recommended at all" by its Ministry of Foreign Affairs, while orange areas travel "is possible, but Belgian authorities invite close surveillance". With regard to tests and quarantine, in this case they are not mandatory but if "recommended".
In the case of trips to the rest of Spain, the Belgium Government "strictly discourages" them, but no longer prohibits them, and maintains its quarantine and PCR requirement to newcomers from other Spanish provinces.
Belgium Tourists in C. Valencia
According to data from Turisme Comunitat Valenciana, 124,798 Belgians arrived in the province between January and August, down 62.2%, with a total expenditure of 133 million euros, 60% less than in the same period of 2019. In terms of hotel overnight stays, the total amounted to 1.4 million, 59% less. The average travel of the Belgians costs 1,063 euros, the daily expense is 93 euros and the average stay of 11 days.
The Costa Blanca is the Belgians' first holiday destination in Spain. Until the outbreak of the pandemic, the province received annually 500,000 Belgian visitors from the 2.5 million visiting Spain, with a total expenditure of 564 million euros and 6.2 million hotel overnight stays. As far as its accommodation model is concerned, 167,000 Belgians stayed in hotels and 371,4509 in dwellings, spread over 151,764 in second homes,133,376 in friends and family homes and 86,310 in rental apartments.
in 2018 there were 17.6 million Belgium Tourists here in Benidorm this number steadily increases year by year.
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