COVID-19: Madeira First Region with a tourist destination certification process

Madeira is the first tourism region that has a destination certification process underway by an internationally recognized multinational, betting on giving confidence to visitors, said the secretary responsible for the Regional Government sector.

18 May 2020 min de leitura

“Madeira was the first region in Portugal to have a manual of good referral practices for the sector, participated by the sector, and it is the first tourism region that we know, until now, with an ongoing certification process”, said Eduardo Jesus in an interview with the Lusa agency.

The Madeiran official pointed out that the epidemiological situation of this autonomous region in the context of the covd-19 pandemic, with 90 cases, 60% of which were recovered, and the absence of deaths caused by the new coronavirus, make Madeira “a very unique and quite differentiated ”, placing this destination“ on a completely different level from the markets with which it regularly works ”.

“Here the key is that what you do, you do it well. And to do well is not being able to create a false expectation for the traveler ”, based on three prevention criteria, which“ must always be verified in any circumstance: social distance, use of personal protective equipment and health security ”.

“If we apply these three directories at any point during the trip, we have the process safeguarded. That is, before getting on the plane, on the plane, when leaving the plane, when making the first ground transportation, when going to the accommodation, when circulating inside and outside the accommodation, at all these moments there are three major lines to check orientation ”, he stressed.

The Madeiran government official also maintained that everything that is done must “attend to these three universes: whoever visits, who works and who resides”.

Globally, according to a report by the AFP news agency, the covid-19 pandemic has already claimed close to 312,000 deaths and infected more than 4.6 million people in 196 countries and territories.

More than 1.6 million patients were considered cured.

In Portugal, 1,218 people out of 29,036 confirmed as infected died, and there are 4,636 recovered cases, according to the Directorate-General for Health.

Madeira continued on Sunday with no new cases of covid-19, maintaining the same 90 reported situations for 11 days, 59 of which are reported to have been recovered and 31 active, and no deaths, according to the region´s health authority.

To combat the pandemic, governments sent 4.5 billion people home (more than half of the planet´s population), paralyzing entire sectors of the world economy, in a “great confinement” that several countries have already begun to alleviate in the face of declining prices. new contagions.