by Donald Wood
Last updated: 12:35 PM ET, Mon May 18, 2020
Travelers who have been waiting to visit the Graceland mansion, the former home of Elvis Presley, will be able to enter the museum again when it reopens on Thursday.
According to The Associated Press, officials representing the Memphis tourist attraction said the facility had made changes to its tours, restaurant and retail operations since closing in March due to the coronavirus outbreak.
Graceland welcomes more than 600,000 visitors every year, but the new health and safety protocols call for a 75-percent mansion capacity reduction and mandatory face masks for employees and visitors.
"We are helping Memphis and Tennessee to get back to some sense of normality," Graceland Holdings managing partner Joel Weinshanker said in a statement.
Restaurant capacities limits on the Tennessee property were also cut by 50 percent, while Elvis Presley Enterprises said temperature checks would be administered to all guests and employees arriving at the facilities.
In addition, hand sanitizing stations are being installed around the 13.8-acre property.
Graceland isn't the only popular tourist attraction beginning the process of welcoming guests again, as officials from Walt Disney World Resort recently released plans for a phased reopening of its Disney Springs shopping, dining and entertainment complex, to begin on May 20.
Government officials in the Florida Keys announced they would reopen beaches on June 1.
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