{"id":1388,"date":"2020-07-28T14:23:27","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T14:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/?p=26050"},"modified":"2020-09-04T03:24:09","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T03:24:09","slug":"wttc-responds-to-uk-governments-decision-to-revert-spain-to-at-risk-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/global-travel-news\/wttc-responds-to-uk-governments-decision-to-revert-spain-to-at-risk-status\/","title":{"rendered":"WTTC Responds to UK Government\u2019s Decision to Revert Spain to At-Risk Status"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/more-news\/organizations\/international-organizations\/world-travel-tourism-council-news\/wttc-responds-to-uk-governments-decision-to-revert-spain-to-at-risk-status\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"WTTC Responds to UK Government&#039;s Decision to Revert Spain to At-Risk Status-TRAVELINDEX\" src=\"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/WTTC-Responds-to-UK-Governments-Decision-to-Revert-Spain-to-At-Risk-Status-TRAVELINDEX-500x308.jpg\" alt=\"WTTC Responds to UK Government&#8217;s Decision to Revert Spain to At-Risk Status\" width=\"500\" height=\"308\" style=\"max-width: 100%;height: auto\" \/><\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<p>London, United Kingdom, July 27, 2020 \/ TRAVELINDEX \/ Gloria Guevara, WTTC President &amp; CEO said: \u201cRequiring UK travellers returning from Spain to once again quarantine for 14 days will be hugely disappointing for thousands of UK holidaymakers \u2013 and is disastrous for the hard-pressed Travel &amp; Tourism industry, both in Spain and the UK.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile the health and safety of travellers \u2013 as well as those who work within the Travel &amp; Tourism industry \u2013 is paramount, this move will be a bitter blow for those holidaymakers already in Spain who will now be forced into isolation when they return home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWTTC believes quarantines do nothing to help restore consumer confidence at a time when we need to encourage people to return to travelling, in line with our Safe Travels protocols, to give a hope of saving some of the 2020 summer season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe urge governments to consider local lockdowns instead of closing entire country\u2019s borders. Painting an entire country with the same brush does not benefit anyone. While we understand the concern about destinations like Spain with new COVID-19 cases, the majority of the country and its islands, which are incredibly popular holiday destinations, have less cases than the UK.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe encourage the government to consider solutions which reduce the impact on holidaymakers and those whose livelihoods depend upon Travel &amp; Tourism.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London, United Kingdom, July 27, 2020 \/ TRAVELINDEX \/ Gloria Guevara, WTTC President &amp; CEO said: \u201cRequiring UK travellers returning from Spain to once again quarantine for 14 days will be hugely disappointing for thousands of UK holidaymakers \u2013 and is disastrous for the hard-pressed Travel &amp; Tourism industry, both in Spain and the UK. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4729,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1388","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\/1388","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=1388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}