Accommodation
Campsites
Campsites are not included in the ban on public gatherings exceeding 50 people. However, events on and in connection with campsites may be affected.
Due to the risk of contagion, the Swedish Tourist Association ("STF") has introduced restrictions concerning how many people may spend the night in the Association's mountain cabins. Hikers will have to book a space in the cabins and pay in advance.
Private cabins may also have introduced similar rules. If you have considered hiking this summer, we recommend that you investigate this before leaving.
Hotels and private accommodation
General advice and recommendations regarding minimising the spread of infection apply.
Activities
Restaurants and cafés
Restaurants, cafés, and bars as well as other venues serving food and drink must:
- Take measures to avoid crowding of people in queues, at tables, buffets or bar counters.
- Ensure that guests can keep at least one meter's distance from other people.
- Only serve food and drink to guests who are seated at a table or a bar counter.
- Guests are permitted to order and pick up food and drink, provided that this does not lead to crowding or queues.
- Offer guests the opportunity to wash their hands thoroughly with soap and water, or offer them hand sanitiser.
- Inform guests about how they can decrease the risk for spreading infection.
Hotels, hostels, and campsites
Hotels, hostels and campsites should ensure that personnel and guests are familiar with and follow the advice of the Public Health Agency of Sweden (Folkhälsomyndigheten).
Visitor-related businesses should be able to offer alternative solutions to queues, for instance, when checking in (e.g. showing the distance guests can maintain between each other). Personnel and visitors should also have the opportunity to cleanse their hands, both with soap and water and hand sanitiser.
If the business has a restaurant, bar or café, it is subject to the Public Health Agency’s overcrowding rules for, among other things, restaurants and pubs.
Any events may be affected by the ban on public gatherings and events.
By now, those in Sweden are well aware of the risks of Covid-19, and most adopt measures for their own protection to augment those mandated by the authorities.