{"id":1283,"date":"2020-07-09T16:25:37","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T16:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/?p=25957"},"modified":"2020-08-15T13:26:39","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T13:26:39","slug":"wttc-welcomes-uk-government-budget-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/global-travel-news\/wttc-welcomes-uk-government-budget-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"WTTC Welcomes UK Government Budget Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/destinations\/europe\/wttc-welcomes-uk-government-budget-statement\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"WTTC Welcomes UK Government Budget Statement-TRAVELINDEX\" src=\"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/WTTC-Welcomes-UK-Government-Budget-Statement-TRAVELINDEX-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"WTTC Welcomes UK Government Budget Statement\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" style=\"max-width: 100%;height: auto\" \/><\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<p>London, United Kingdom, July 9, 2020 \/ TRAVELINDEX \/ Gloria Guevara, WTTC President &amp; CEO said: \u201cThousands of tourism businesses large and small across the country will be breathing a collective sigh of relief now that the Chancellor has announced a VAT holiday of 15% for the hospitality industry from next Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/category\/more-news\/organizations\/international-organizations\/world-travel-tourism-council-news\/\">WTTC warmly welcomes<\/a> this measure, which will save struggling companies millions of pounds and provide a much-needed boost to a sector which has been on the verge of collapse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have congratulated the UK Tourism Minister Nigel Huddleston for the move in a call today with WTTC Members, which will go some way to restoring consumer confidence in a sector which last year generated nearly \u00a3200 billion GDP, or 9% to the UK economy, supporting four million jobs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis shows the commitment the UK government has to the industry and we hope to see these examples of continued support for <a href=\"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/category\/more-news\/organizations\/international-organizations\/world-travel-tourism-council-news\/\">Travel &amp; Tourism<\/a> around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London, United Kingdom, July 9, 2020 \/ TRAVELINDEX \/ Gloria Guevara, WTTC President &amp; CEO said: \u201cThousands of tourism businesses large and small across the country will be breathing a collective sigh of relief now that the Chancellor has announced a VAT holiday of 15% for the hospitality industry from next Wednesday. \u201cWTTC warmly welcomes &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1283","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\/1283","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=1283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}