Zuhal Demir reopens the tourist season in Flanders with the YouFlanders app

Those looking for a nice place to spend a holiday in Flanders can visit YouFlanders from Monday for inspiration. This is an online application that brings together what Flanders has to offer in terms of tourism. “Flanders has beautiful assets that we can enjoy, as well as unknown pearls waiting to be discovered by a wider audience: from Leut to Lampernisse.”

It’s time to go out

After weeks of “stay at home”, it’s finally “time to go out”. In collaboration with the Flemish art cities and provinces, Minister Zuhal Demir is also presenting the online application to discover Flanders: “YouFlanders”. Visitors can find out what is on offer for tourists, they can check the safety measures in those places, and can immediately see how busy it is.

We have missed you

The inspiring campaign Vlaanderen Vakantieland is starting next week with the warm message “We have missed you” to promote tourism in Flanders. “It is important to know that if you book via the website www.vlaanderenvakantieland.be, you book directly with the owners and operators. No commissions are deducted from these bookings, meaning that the Flemish tourism sector is given maximum support.”

Set off with peace of mind

From 8 June, everyone can visit “YouFlanders”. The application is free of charge and gives users an overview of all sights and tourist services in their vicinity or at their destination. They can find all the information they need to set out with peace of mind: what safety measures apply? What do I have to bear in mind? Is it busy there now? What quieter alternatives are there?

More aware and closer

Travelling in the summer of 2020 will clearly be different: more aware and closer to home. It will be better for the well-being of many people, who really need the healing effect of holidays, says Zuhal Demir. “It will also be better for our local economy, better for the environment and better for the appreciation of our own region. And in order to fully put our region in the spotlight, this summer we will also be showing the uniqueness of Vlaanderen Vakantieland on television, in collaboration with Belgian media.”

Everyone Deserves a Holiday

In all this, the tourism sector is also taking into account Flemish people in vulnerable situations. To make holidays possible for them too, Minister Zuhal Demir is supporting the partner network Iedereen Verdient Vakantie (Everyone Deserves a Holiday) coordinated by Visit Flanders. “As a child, the trip to Blankenberge by train and ice cream on the dike was an expensive expedition for the Demir family of seven. But they are memories that I will cherish forever. I am glad that we can give a lot of people that opportunity this year. We are not leaving anyone behind this summer.”