{"id":2738,"date":"2021-07-22T05:01:53","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T05:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/?p=28114"},"modified":"2021-07-22T05:01:53","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T05:01:53","slug":"wttc-responds-to-relaxing-of-restrictions-across-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/global-travel-news\/wttc-responds-to-relaxing-of-restrictions-across-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"WTTC Responds to Relaxing of Restrictions Across UK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div> <a href=\"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/more-news\/organizations\/international-organizations\/world-travel-tourism-council-news\/wttc-responds-to-relaxing-of-restrictions-across-uk\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"WTTC Responds to Relaxing of Restrictions Across UK-TRAVELINDEX\" src=\"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/wttc-responds-to-relaxing-of-restrictions-across-uk.jpg\" alt=\"WTTC Responds to Relaxing of Restrictions Across UK\" width=\"500\" height=\"293\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto;\" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n<p>London, United Kingdom, July 22, 2021 \/ TRAVELINDEX \/ Virginia Messina, WTTC Senior Vice President, said: \u201cToday we should reflect on how hard won our newly re-found \u2018freedoms\u2019 are, which have been curbed for the best part of 18 months as together we have fought against the pandemic \u2013 at huge social, economic and personal cost.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know it will come as a sigh of relief that our lives are beginning to return to normal, albeit with mask-wearing where appropriate, to continue prioritizing public safety.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, while the domestic holiday market is reaping the benefits of \u2018Freedom Day\u2019, with staycations booming, we are not out of the woods yet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInternational travel remains either off limits or frustratingly difficult for many. This means the door to significant overseas travel still remains effectively closed, especially following the new \u2018amber list-plus status\u2019 for France which caused such chaos last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need international travel; economically, socially and emotionally. Our pent-up desire to travel remains undimmed, and we must take advantage of the hugely successful vaccine rollout to safely resume it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hope the UK government will extend these revived domestic \u2018freedoms\u2019 to include the freedom to travel safely internationally, so we can reconnect with the world and harness all the benefits that it brings to us as individuals, and collectively to the Travel &amp; Tourism sector and the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>First published at<a href=\"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/more-news\/organizations\/international-organizations\/world-travel-tourism-council-news\/wttc-responds-to-relaxing-of-restrictions-across-uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> TravelCommunication.net<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London, United Kingdom, July 22, 2021 \/ TRAVELINDEX \/ Virginia Messina, WTTC Senior Vice President, said: \u201cToday we should reflect on how hard won our newly re-found \u2018freedoms\u2019 are, which have been curbed for the best part of 18 months as together we have fought against the pandemic \u2013 at huge social, economic and personal &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[146,52,43,37,111,45,46,44,14,48,59,499,153,47],"class_list":["post-2738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-travel-news","tag-europe","tag-featured","tag-global-travel-news","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","tag-wttc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2738","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=2738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}