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Club Med will require guests to be vaccinated or show a negative Covid test to visit its resorts around the world, the travel giant’s chief said Friday.
Owned by China’s Fosun company, France-based Club Med had to close all of its 65 facilities around the world last year before gradually reopening them as conditions allowed.
“There is a desire to go on holiday today. Families were locked up for a year and our responsibility is to make sure they come in the safest conditions,” chief executive Henri Giscard d’Estaing told RMC radio.
People will have to show a negative Covid test to be guests at a resort, unless they can show they were vaccinated, Giscard d’Estaing said, noting that airlines were adopting similar measures.
The company is counting on a rebound this summer as vaccination programmes speed up and countries ease border restrictions.
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