The Czech Republic has established summer season consular posts with Croatia and Bulgaria, in addition to deployed joint patrols and native law enforcement officials to assist vacationers, whereas on-line guides are additionally accessible for travellers.
Based on a press launch issued by the Czech Overseas Ministry, these measures are ready forward of the summer season season, when incoming vacationers are anticipated to go to the nation, SchengenVisaInfo.com studies.
“Regardless of Putin’s assault on Ukraine, I’m glad that tourism is returning to what we knew earlier than the Covid-19 pandemic. Sadly, the pandemic is indelibly engraved within the journey habits of Czech residents, and the Ministry of Overseas Affairs and journey businesses at the moment and day-after-day clear up issues with forfeited journey paperwork or makes an attempt to journey to Croatia on an insured card,” the pinnacle of the Czech diplomacy, Jan Lipavsky stated.
Furthermore, Ivan Bartos, the Minister for Regional Improvement within the Czech Republic, urged travellers to buy journey insurance coverage so the vacationers can have a assure within the case of any inconvenience.
He additionally identified that funds for vacationers from third international locations will likely be decrease in addition to for these driving alone, whereas the safety for these on organised excursions is extra correct.
These modifications and measures come after quite a few complication instances of Czech residents when travelling overseas have been recorded, so the federal government arrange a consular workplace this 12 months in numerous international locations corresponding to Barcelona, Spain, Burgas in Bulgaria and within the Croatian cities of Rijeka and Break up.
These consular workplaces are anticipated to assist residents in instances, as an illustration, the lack of a journey doc or in coping with native authorities. There may even be joint patrols of Czech and native law enforcement officials deployed in Croatia and Bulgaria, which can assist the vacationers to beat the language barrier in fixing doable issues.
“I remind you that when travelling with kids underneath the age of 18, every little one will need to have their very own journey doc or written parental consent if the kid travels alone and the state requires it,” stated Martin Smolek, Deputy Head of the Authorized and Consular Part.
On the similar time, the Ministry of Overseas Affairs urges the Czech passengers to register within the DROZD system, all through which they may obtain up-to-date details about sudden occasions at their place of residence.
Based on knowledge from Statista, the variety of arrivals in vacationer lodging spots in Czechia reached 22 million in 2019, marking the best report ever. Within the earlier 12 months, this quantity was 21.2 million, up by 1.2 million from 2017.