{"id":1218,"date":"2020-06-26T10:24:37","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T10:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/?p=25846"},"modified":"2020-07-21T02:33:50","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T02:33:50","slug":"wttc-calls-for-greater-clarity-so-brits-can-travel-abroad-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/global-travel-news\/wttc-calls-for-greater-clarity-so-brits-can-travel-abroad-again\/","title":{"rendered":"WTTC Calls for Greater Clarity so Brits Can Travel Abroad Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/destinations\/europe\/wttc-calls-for-greater-clarity-so-brits-can-travel-abroad-again\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"WTTC Calls for Greater Clarity so Brits Can Travel Abroad Again-TRAVELINDEX\" src=\"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/WTTC-Calls-for-Greater-Clarity-so-Brits-Can-Travel-Abroad-Again-TRAVELINDEX-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"WTTC Calls for Greater Clarity so Brits Can Travel Abroad Again\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" style=\"max-width: 100%;height: auto\" \/><\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<p>London, United Kingdom, June 26, 2020 \/ TRAVELINDEX \/ Gloria Guevara, WTTC President and CEO of the World Travel and Tourism Council (<a href=\"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/category\/more-news\/organizations\/international-organizations\/world-travel-tourism-council-news\/\">WTTC<\/a>), said \u201cThe UK\u2019s Travel &amp; Tourism sector will no doubt welcome the UK government\u2019s announcement on the re-opening of hotels, pubs, restaurants and attractions from July 4, as the lockdown measures ease across England. It will help drive the recovery of a crucial sector which is worth almost \u00a3200bn or nine per cent of the UK\u2019s total economy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut while this may help domestic Travel &amp; Tourism to recover, it does nothing to bring greater clarity for when travellers and holidaymakers can start venturing abroad or when international travellers can arrive into the UK on air bridges or travel corridors without having to be quarantined for 14 days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWTTC believes the recovery of the wider <a href=\"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/category\/more-news\/organizations\/international-organizations\/world-travel-tourism-council-news\/\">Travel &amp; Tourism sector desperately needs a clear timeline<\/a> for when overseas travel can resume. It is essential that airlines, tour operators and ferry companies, among others, can prepare their businesses to welcome back holidaymakers who also need to be able to plan and book their getaways.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London, United Kingdom, June 26, 2020 \/ TRAVELINDEX \/ Gloria Guevara, WTTC President and CEO of the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC), said \u201cThe UK\u2019s Travel &amp; Tourism sector will no doubt welcome the UK government\u2019s announcement on the re-opening of hotels, pubs, restaurants and attractions from July 4, as the lockdown measures ease &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4790,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-travel-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}