‘This is all we could get’: Dutch tourists arrive in Rhodes for locked-down holiday
by Helena Smith in Athens and agencies from World news | The Guardian on (#5GG61)
In experiment organised by Dutch government, travellers will have to take regular Covid tests and are barred from leaving resort
A regime that might, in more normal times, resemble a boot camp has been happily embraced by 189 Dutch tourists who traded lockdown in the Netherlands for eight days of voluntary confinement at a Greek beach resort.
In an experiment devised by travel industry experts determined not to lose another season to Covid-19, the tourists arrived on the Aegean island of Rhodes on Monday as part of a test run to see if safe holidays can be arranged during the pandemic.
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