{"id":1948,"date":"2021-01-29T02:37:35","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T02:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/?p=26982"},"modified":"2021-03-09T01:28:19","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T01:28:19","slug":"uk-government-must-provide-more-support-to-embattled-tourism-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/global-travel-news\/uk-government-must-provide-more-support-to-embattled-tourism-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Government Must Provide More Support to Embattled Tourism Sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/more-news\/organizations\/international-organizations\/world-travel-tourism-council-news\/uk-government-must-provide-more-support-to-embattled-tourism-sector\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"UK Government Must Provide More Support to Embattled Tourism Sector-TRAVELINDEX\" src=\"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/UK-Government-Must-Provide-More-Support-to-Embattled-Tourism-Sector-TRAVELINDEX-500x281.jpg\" alt=\"UK Government Must Provide More Support to Embattled Tourism Sector\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" style=\"max-width: 100%;height: auto\" \/><\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<p>London, United Kingdom, January 27, 2021 \/ TRAVELINDEX \/ Gloria Guevara, WTTC President &amp; CEO, said: \u201cWTTC urgently calls upon the UK government to extend the furlough scheme for those employed in the beleaguered Travel &amp; Tourism sector.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout it and a comprehensive support package for businesses up and down the country which have been devastated by the pandemic, \u00a0the UK\u2019s Travel &amp; Tourism sector could be brought to its knees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInternational travel will all but wiped out and according to WTTC analysis, the UK economy could lose a staggering \u00a3380,000 every minute \u2013 or almost \u00a3548 million every day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government has a duty to share its own economic impact assessment, so we fully understand the effect these measures will have on the sector and the wider economy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the UK is to have any hope of reviving the economy after the pandemic, we have to protect a sector which will be instrumental in kick starting it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London, United Kingdom, January 27, 2021 \/ TRAVELINDEX \/ Gloria Guevara, WTTC President &amp; CEO, said: \u201cWTTC urgently calls upon the UK government to extend the furlough scheme for those employed in the beleaguered Travel &amp; Tourism sector. \u201cWithout it and a comprehensive support package for businesses up and down the country which have been &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4471,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1948","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\/1948","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=1948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}