Article 558FT Global report: first tourists arrive in Greece as Brazil passes 60,000 deaths

Global report: first tourists arrive in Greece as Brazil passes 60,000 deaths

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Jon Henley, Tom Phillips and Helena Smith
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Spain and Portugal reopen border as global tourism industry predicted to lose up to 2.6tn

The first tourist flights in four months landed on the Greek island of Crete, and Spain and Portugal reopened their land border as European countries continued to ease travel restrictions, as Brazil recorded 60,000 deaths.

A charter plane carrying 172 passengers from Hamburg landed at Heraklion airport on Crete at 8am, minutes after another aircraft had arrived from the Czech Republic, re-establishing the island's air links with the outside world.

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