Ireland has a new coronavirus fear: Americans on vacation.
“We're already running at 50 percent below usual,” he said. “So we just don't have the resources to stop every single person and to try and deal with them in a way where you would if you went through passport control in an airport.”, leaving just Albania, Kosovo, Serbia and North Macedonia — none of them considered tourism hotspots — as last-minute alternatives to Ireland for Americans set on visiting the Continent this summer.
Janet Cavanagh, the owner of E-whizz, a bike touring company in the west of the Irish Republic, says 90 percent of her guided tour business is from the U.S. and Canada. But she felt she had no choice but to cancel an American couple’s tour. The Irish government says arrangements are being made for “a more robust system of follow-up checks to ensure that those entering the country are staying where they said they would stay per the form.”Caitlin Potts, 29, an SEO content writer from Columbus, Ohio, studied in Northern Ireland in 2012. She planned to go on a “trip of a lifetime” with her parents to Ireland and Scotland this summer.
But when it seemed clear that COVID-19 wasn’t going away any time soon, and with her parents in their 60s, Potts said he felt it was “better to be safe than sorry” and decided to cancel the trip.Kevin Kelly, the business development director for the Boston-based tour operator Crystal Travel & Tours, said sending clients like Potts to Ireland and Britain just wasn’t an option.
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