{"id":3379,"date":"2022-01-06T01:58:05","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T01:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/?p=29230"},"modified":"2022-01-06T01:58:05","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T01:58:05","slug":"wttc-and-ukinbound-praise-removal-of-pre-departure-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/global-travel-news\/wttc-and-ukinbound-praise-removal-of-pre-departure-test\/","title":{"rendered":"WTTC and UKinbound Praise Removal of Pre-Departure Test"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div> <a href=\"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/more-news\/organizations\/international-organizations\/world-travel-tourism-council-news\/wttc-and-ukinbound-praise-removal-of-pre-departure-test\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"WTTC and UKinbound Praise Removal of Pre-Departure Test-TRAVELINDEX\" src=\"https:\/\/corporate.travelindex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/wttc-and-ukinbound-praise-removal-of-pre-departure-test.jpg\" alt=\"WTTC and UKinbound Praise Removal of Pre-Departure Test\" width=\"500\" height=\"310\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto;\" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n<p>London, United Kingdom, January 6, 2022 \/ TRAVELINDEX \/ The World Travel &amp; Tourism Council (WTTC) and UKinbound have welcomed the government\u2019s decision to remove pre-departure tests for travellers and replace damaging Day 2 PCR testing with antigen tests<\/p>\n<p>Julia Simpson, WTTC President &amp; CEO, said: \u201cThe removal of pre-departure tests and replacing Day 2 PCRs with more affordable antigen testing will significantly boost the UK Travel &amp; Tourism sector and help both it and the whole UK economy recover much faster than expected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe testing measures being removed never actually stopped infections coming in and were a blunt policy which only damaged the travel and tourism sector.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Joss Croft, CEO, UKinbound said \u201cThe industry will be very pleased to see the removal of onerous pre-departure testing, and the replacement of the day 2 PCR test with a lateral flow test.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, this is not job done. January to March is a key booking period for inbound travel and if we are to ensure the successful revival of the UK\u2019s valuable inbound tourism industry, our 5th largest export sector, worth \u00a328 billion to the UK economy in 2019, then the government needs to provide a clear roadmap for the removal of all travel restrictions and to signal that the UK will be fully open for business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>First published at<a href=\"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/more-news\/organizations\/international-organizations\/world-travel-tourism-council-news\/wttc-and-ukinbound-praise-removal-of-pre-departure-test\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> TravelCommunication.net<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London, United Kingdom, January 6, 2022 \/ TRAVELINDEX \/ The World Travel &amp; Tourism Council (WTTC) and UKinbound have welcomed the government\u2019s decision to remove pre-departure tests for travellers and replace damaging Day 2 PCR testing with antigen tests Julia Simpson, WTTC President &amp; CEO, said: \u201cThe removal of pre-departure tests and replacing Day 2 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[43,439,37,111,45,46,44,14,48,59,153,47,1382],"class_list":["post-3379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-travel-news","tag-global-travel-news","tag-julia-simpson","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-wttc","tag-wttc-news","tag-wttc-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3379","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=3379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}