{"id":3088,"date":"2021-10-19T00:57:18","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T00:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/?p=28746"},"modified":"2021-10-19T00:57:18","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T00:57:18","slug":"wttc-welcomes-reopening-of-u-s-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/global-travel-news\/wttc-welcomes-reopening-of-u-s-borders\/","title":{"rendered":"WTTC Welcomes Reopening of U.S. Borders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div> <a href=\"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/more-news\/organizations\/international-organizations\/world-travel-tourism-council-news\/wttc-welcomes-reopening-of-u-s-borders\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"WTTC Welcomes Reopening of U.S. Borders-TRAVELINDEX\" src=\"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/wttc-welcomes-reopening-of-u-s-borders.jpg\" alt=\"WTTC Welcomes Reopening of U.S. Borders\" width=\"500\" height=\"315\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto;\" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n<p>Washington DC, United States, October 19, 2021 \/ TRAVELINDEX \/ Julia Simpson, WTTC President &amp; CEO said: \u201cIt is great news that the U.S. will reopen its borders to fully-vaccinated travellers from the UK and EU from Nov 8. It has been a long time coming, but the Travel &amp; Tourism businesses on both sides of the Atlantic will be breathing a sigh of relief.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVisitors from the EU and the UK contributed more than $46 billion to the U.S economy in 2019, showing just how critical this move will be to the U.S recovery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWTTC believe governments should axe red lists completely, and instead base the risk on individuals rather than entire countries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>First published at<a href=\"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/more-news\/organizations\/international-organizations\/world-travel-tourism-council-news\/wttc-welcomes-reopening-of-u-s-borders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> TravelCommunication.net<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington DC, United States, October 19, 2021 \/ TRAVELINDEX \/ Julia Simpson, WTTC President &amp; CEO said: \u201cIt is great news that the U.S. will reopen its borders to fully-vaccinated travellers from the UK and EU from Nov 8. It has been a long time coming, but the Travel &amp; Tourism businesses on both sides &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3983,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[88,52,43,1180,439,37,233,520,1181,45,46,44,1182,14,1183,48,59,47],"class_list":["post-3088","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-healthtravel-planner","tag-julia-simpson","tag-news","tag-north-america","tag-pandemic","tag-re-opening","tag-travel-communication","tag-travel-index","tag-travel-news-hub","tag-travel-secured","tag-travelindex","tag-united-states","tag-unwtp-news","tag-updates","tag-wttc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3088","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=3088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}