With the guidelines issued by the Government, in Spain the campsites can now reopen

While Italian campsites are still waiting for univocal guidelines and an indication of the possible reopening date, things are moving quickly in the rest of Europe. Yesterday we were talking about the recommendations for facilities in Croatia, but in recent days Spain has also made important steps forward, so much so that a thousand campsites are already reopening their doors these days.

The Instituto para la Calidad Turística Española, in collaboration with the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism, has issued a long series of guidelines and recommendations, collected in a guide downloadable from the ministry’s website. The approach is more complex than we have seen in Croatia, with a document over twenty pages long that tries to answer many of the questions that can come from those who manage a campsite.

With a fairly bureaucratic approach, however, the first thing that an accommodation structure must do is create, if it does not already exist, “a risk management committee, which will have the legal representation of the workers“. This committee must, among other things, establish the objectives to be pursued, carry out a risk assessment, plan the necessary protection measures, prepare the implementation of an emergency plan, allocate human and material resources, as well as determine and implement an action protocol in case an employee or guest shows symptoms compatible with Covid-19.

Otherwise it is a series of fairly general recommendations. For the use of sanitary blocks, which is perhaps one of the most significant problems in the accommodation sector, the guide establishes