Abu Dhabi is eyeing to lift Covid-19 quarantine restrictions for international travelers beginning July 1along with plans to relax restrictions on a number of tourism activities to boost the tourism sector in the emirate.
The move will expand the emirate’s green travel list, which enables travelers coming from the listed destinations to travel to Abu Dhabi sans quarantine.
“How we are going to move forward in 2021 … Abu Dhabi will be open for everyone with no quarantine protocol starting from July 1,” Ali Al Shaiba, executive director of tourism and marketing at the emirate’s Department of Culture and Tourism, told The National.
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“We are going to welcome everybody to Abu Dhabi with a different [traveling] protocol but no quarantine,” he continued adding that more countries will be added to the green list.
Meanwhile, India is exempted from the planned reopening and other countries considered high-risk for infection.
“It also depends on India itself, if they will allow their people to travel,” he said.
Currently, there are 22 countries listed on Abu Dhabi’s green list. These include:
– Australia
– Bhutan
– Brunei
– China
– Cuba
– Greenland
– Hong Kong (SAR)
– Iceland
– Israel
– Japan
– Mauritius
– Morocco
– New Zealand
– Portugal
– Russia
– Saudi Arabia
– Singapore
– South Korea
– Switzerland
– Taiwan (ROC)
– Tajikistan
– United Kingdom
– Uzbekistan
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Al Shaiba said the list will add more countries and destinations until the beginning of the third quarter.
According to the official, Abu Dhabi is expected to announce details of travel protocols when it unveils its summer tourism promotion campaign.
