{"id":1901,"date":"2021-01-13T04:23:39","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T04:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/?p=26905"},"modified":"2021-02-18T21:33:31","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T21:33:31","slug":"wttc-statement-on-brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/global-travel-news\/wttc-statement-on-brexit\/","title":{"rendered":"WTTC Statement on Brexit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/more-news\/organizations\/international-organizations\/world-travel-tourism-council-news\/wttc-statement-on-brexit\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"WTTC Statement on Brexit-TRAVELINDEX\" src=\"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/WTTC-Statement-on-Brexit-TRAVELINDEX-500x259.jpg\" alt=\"WTTC Statement on Brexit\" width=\"500\" height=\"259\" style=\"max-width: 100%;height: auto\" \/><\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<p>London, United Kingdom, January 9, 2021 \/ TRAVELINDEX \/ Gloria Guevara, WTTC President &amp; CEO, said: \u201cThe whole Travel &amp; Tourism sector will be breathing a sigh of relief that the EU and UK government have been able to agree a deal at the 11th hour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is good news for a sector which has been crippled by the COVID-19 pandemic and which feared the consequences of a no-deal Brexit. Thankfully this worrying outcome has been avoided and now the sector can look ahead to 2021 with more confidence.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022<a style=\"color: #096b27;font-weight: 600\" href=\"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/category\/more-news\/organizations\/international-organizations\/world-travel-tourism-council-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Read all the latest WTTC News and Press Releases here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut British holidaymakers could face higher health costs and added red tape. The devil will be in the detail of the deal \u2013 and only time will tell what the true consequences are for travellers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWTTC stands ready to work closely with governments and other key organisations in Travel &amp; Tourism to help implement testing and WTTC Safe Travels protocols to enable the recovery of the sector.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe continue to call for the end of crippling quarantines and damaging travel restrictions which will only set back further the economic recovery, and instead replace them with a comprehensive, quick turnaround testing regime on departure. This is the only way this sector, which is critical to powering the UK \u2013 and the global economy \u2013 will survive. \u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London, United Kingdom, January 9, 2021 \/ TRAVELINDEX \/ Gloria Guevara, WTTC President &amp; CEO, said: \u201cThe whole Travel &amp; Tourism sector will be breathing a sigh of relief that the EU and UK government have been able to agree a deal at the 11th hour. \u201cIt is good news for a sector which has &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4494,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1901","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\/1901","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=1901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}