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The headline seemed weird to me, as you need at least two countries to test a new type of passport (the issuing country and the country accepting the passport f
by rahimnathwani 4y ago
The headline seemed weird to me, as you need at least two countries to test a new type of passport (the issuing country and the country accepting the passport for entry).
Sure enough, the article says:
"the initial plan is to test digital travel documents between Finland and Croatia"
- Ekaros 4y agoCroatia seems rather strange choice. It is not exactly the most popular travel destination. But then again most of those are in Schengen, and I don't think you can expect too much from UK and deals with Russia have some issues currently. So I don't think list is too big.
- ageitgey 4y ago> Croatia seems rather strange choice. It is not exactly the most popular travel destination. Maybe you just aren't familiar with it, but Croatia is a very popular summer beach vacation destination for Europeans looking to hit the beach in the summer. The beaches are beautiful, they have old architecture in cities like Split and it's relatively inexpensive to visit. They get ~20 million tourists a year and tourism is about 20% of their GDP.
- taubek 4y agoYes, Croatia is not in Schengen yet. The decision on that should be made in autumn. This is the experiment so I guess that it is better to run it with countries that are not the tip destination. I've just looked up the numbers for 2019, 118 000 visitors came to Croatia from Finland (https://www.ceicdata.com/en/croatia/tourist-arrivals-by-country-annual/tourist-arrivals-foreign-european-finland https://www.ceicdata.com/en/croatia/tourist-arrivals-by-coun...).