{"id":2594,"date":"2021-06-07T00:20:50","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T00:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/?p=27862"},"modified":"2021-06-07T00:20:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T00:20:50","slug":"wttc-responds-to-expected-announcement-from-uk-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/global-travel-news\/wttc-responds-to-expected-announcement-from-uk-government\/","title":{"rendered":"WTTC Responds to Expected Announcement from UK Government"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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London, United Kingdom, June 7, 2021 \/ TRAVELINDEX \/ Virginia Messina, Senior Vice President WTTC, said: \u201cThe World Travel & Tourism Council shares the huge disappointment of Travel & Tourism businesses up and down the country, as well as that of holidaymakers, that the government has once again cold-shouldered Travel & Tourism by refusing to add any new destinations to the meagre green list.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are so many countries with similar vaccination levels and low infection rates as the UK to which travel should be restored immediately, such as the US and Malta.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is essential we kick-start the return of international travel to save the flailing aviation industry and the global Travel & Tourism sector.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Portugal has been dropped into the amber list, it will crush the confidence to travel, depress forward bookings and send ripples of worry through travel agents everywhere.<\/p>\n

\u201cWTTC believes the time is now right for the UK to open the doors to safe travel and allow all those who are fully vaccinated or can show proof of a negative COVID-19 test, to travel freely.\u201d<\/p>\n

First published at TravelCommunication.net<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

London, United Kingdom, June 7, 2021 \/ TRAVELINDEX \/ Virginia Messina, Senior Vice President WTTC, said: \u201cThe World Travel & Tourism Council shares the huge disappointment of Travel & Tourism businesses up and down the country, as well as that of holidaymakers, that the government has once again cold-shouldered Travel & Tourism by refusing to …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[572,146,52,43,502,37,111,45,46,44,14,48,59,499,47],"class_list":["post-2594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-travel-news","tag-boris-johnson","tag-europe","tag-featured","tag-global-travel-news","tag-london","tag-news","tag-travel-and-tourism-foundation","tag-travel-communication","tag-travel-index","tag-travel-news-hub","tag-travelindex","tag-unwtp-news","tag-updates","tag-virginia-messina","tag-wttc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}