Some tiny countries hope for a big boost from vaccine tourism
Book a three-night hotel stay in the European microstate of San Marino, and your room could come with a bonus amenity: A coronavirus vaccine.
The landlocked republic, which has vaccinated roughly three-quarters of its population, now hopes to lure tourists by offering them doses of the Russian-made Sputnik V vaccine. While the vaccine’s two doses will cost only 50 euros (roughly $61), recipients must book a second visit to San Marino several weeks later for the second dose, and once again stay at a hotel for a minimum of three nights.
The plan has “a real possibility to attract a kind of tourism that none of us would have ever before thought possible to attract,” Foreign Minister Luca Beccari said at a news conference last week.
The Maldives, another small country with a high vaccination rate and a tourism-dependent economy, has plans for a similar campaign. And while wealthy “vaccine tourists” once faced criticism for crossing international borders in search of a shot, a growing number of nations that are awash in coronavirus vaccine supplies have indicated that they’ll gladly share their surplus doses with anyone who can get on a plane.
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