APAVT closely follows the evolution of the coronavirus in Italy

Until this day, a Associação Portuguesa das Agências de Viagens e Turismo (APAVT) It has no recommendation with respect to travel of Portuguese citizens to Italy despite being one of the European countries with the largest spread of the outbreak of coronavirus.

Speaking to journalists, the President of APAVT, Pedro Costa Ferreira indicated that it is an even more recent situation than China, but that will have an impact on short-term bookings. On the other hand says that it takes, neste momento, let sit the number of cases in that European country.

According To Pedro Costa Ferreira, these latest news in Italy are not encouraging, It is too early to feel the effects of the higher level of travel cancellations.

Note that the APAVT carefully follow the instructions of the Portuguese Communities Portal about Travel advice against, as happened recently with China, taking into account the potential health risks.

Updated Monday (24), the portal noted that in addition to the situation in China check up situations of contagion in other countries of the world. It is recommended prudence and strengthening of hygiene measures in all travel, especially to places with outbreaks identified. In the present circumstances, travelers should remain constantly informed about the developments and attentive to the recommendations published in the portals of the Directorate General of Health (DGS) and the World Health Organization (OMS).

With regard to travel to Asia, in General, Costa Ferreira advanced that what is not recommended at this time are only trips to mainland China, Macau e Hong Kong. No entanto, the impact is even because residual, on the one hand Asia is still not a major tourist destination for Portuguese, por outro, because we are not in the peak season of travel of citizens of Portugal, esclareceu.