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    ABTA offers advice to post-Covid-19 holidaymakers

    ABTA has unveiled a new customer-focused webpage titled ‘Restarting travel – a guide for customers’, designed to take travellers through extra steps to consider as they book their next trip. The move comes as quarantine restrictions are lifted for holidaymakers returning from dozens of countries. Available here, the website includes how to plan for their […] More

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    ABTA offers advice to English post-Covid-19 holidaymakers

    ABTA has unveiled a new customer-focused webpage titled ‘Restarting travel – a guide for customers’, designed to take travellers through extra steps to consider as they book their next trip. The move comes as quarantine restrictions are lifted for holidaymakers returning from dozens of countries. Available here, the website includes how to plan for their […] More

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    US Travel Association critical of European ban

    The United States Travel Association has reacted angrily to suggestions American holidaymakers will be barred from Europe as the region reopens to tourism. Reports indicate the European Union is ready to ban most travellers from the United States, Russia and dozens of other countries considered too risky in the wake of the Covid-19 outbreak. Officials […] More

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    TUI Group raring to go across Europe

    All TUI tour operators and airlines are ready to restart their businesses as travel restrictions are eased across Europe. The first leisure flights have already taken off, with planes departing from Germany, Belgium and Switzerland last week. The Balearic Islands, Greece, Cyprus, Portugal and Croatia are the focus of the first holidays. “TUI appreciates the […] More

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    UNWTO warns tourism slump could hit development

    Without strong support, the sudden and unexpected fall in tourism could devastate the economies of small island developing states (SIDS), the World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) has warned. Since tourism is a strong socio-economic pillar of many such destinations, the impact that Covid-19 is having on the sector places millions of jobs and businesses at risk, […] More

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    VisitEngland launches Covid-19 secure industry standard

    VisitEngland has launched a UK-wide industry standard and consumer mark to provide a ‘ring of confidence’ for tourism as the sector works towards reopening. The move comes in partnership with the national tourist organisations of Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The ‘We’re Good To Go’ industry standard and supporting mark means businesses can demonstrate that […] More