{"id":2656,"date":"2021-06-25T01:16:10","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T01:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/?p=27978"},"modified":"2021-06-25T01:16:10","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T01:16:10","slug":"wttc-on-call-to-reimpose-quarantines-on-arriving-british-travellers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/global-travel-news\/wttc-on-call-to-reimpose-quarantines-on-arriving-british-travellers\/","title":{"rendered":"WTTC on Call to Reimpose Quarantines on Arriving British Travellers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div> <a href=\"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/more-news\/organizations\/international-organizations\/world-travel-tourism-council-news\/wttc-on-call-to-reimpose-quarantines-on-arriving-british-travellers\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"WTTC on Call to Reimpose Quarantines on Arriving British Travellers-TRAVELINDEX\" src=\"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/wttc-on-call-to-reimpose-quarantines-on-arriving-british-travellers.jpg\" alt=\"WTTC on Call to Reimpose Quarantines on Arriving British Travellers\" width=\"500\" height=\"316\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto;\" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n<p>London, United Kingdom, June 25, 2021 \/ TRAVELINDEX \/ Virginia Messina, WTTC Senior Vice President, said: \u201cWTTC is very concerned about reversing quarantine measures and would urge against EU states reimposing them on arriving British holidaymakers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith more than 60% of British adults now fully vaccinated, they should be able to enjoy quarantine-free travel to the EU.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cQuarantines are not the most effective measure to curb the spread of COVID-19 and there is no need to reintroduce them especially given the increasing vaccination rates across Europe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImposing an EU-wide quarantine would extinguish any hopes of bringing back significant summer travel which is a critical season for most European markets. This would significantly damage these countries\u2019 economies, such as Germany where the UK is the fourth largest source market.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would also deal a significant economic blow to countries such as Portugal, Spain, Cyprus and Malta where the UK is also the biggest source market \u2013 and Italy \u2013 where quarantines have recently returned for inbound British travellers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>First published at<a href=\"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/more-news\/organizations\/international-organizations\/world-travel-tourism-council-news\/wttc-on-call-to-reimpose-quarantines-on-arriving-british-travellers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> TravelCommunication.net<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London, United Kingdom, June 25, 2021 \/ TRAVELINDEX \/ Virginia Messina, WTTC Senior Vice President, said: \u201cWTTC is very concerned about reversing quarantine measures and would urge against EU states reimposing them on arriving British holidaymakers. \u201cWith more than 60% of British adults now fully vaccinated, they should be able to enjoy quarantine-free travel to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4199,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[88,52,43,147,37,111,45,46,44,249,14,48,59,499,153,47],"class_list":["post-2656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-travel-news","tag-covid-19","tag-featured","tag-global-travel-news","tag-health-travel-planner","tag-news","tag-travel-and-tourism-foundation","tag-travel-communication","tag-travel-index","tag-travel-news-hub","tag-travelfoundation-org","tag-travelindex","tag-unwtp-news","tag-updates","tag-virginia-messina","tag-wttc","tag-wttc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656","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=2656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}