Abta chief executive Mark Tanzer said the latest update provided a degree of stability for the industry and reassurance to travellers heading off on summer holidays over the coming weeks.
“The government now needs to focus its attention on sorting out some of the structural issues that are stopping people travelling and delaying the industry’s recovery,” said Tanzer. “The UK may be leading the way on the vaccine roll-out, but it is lagging behind other countries when it comes to opening up international travel and making it easy for people to travel.
“The government can, and should, do more to capitalise on the successful vaccine roll-out in the UK – our neighbours across the channel have been able to travel without restriction for quite some time if they have been double vaccinated. The expensive testing regime is putting people off taking a holiday overseas and is unnecessarily onerous when people are returning from low-risk countries.”
Tanzer added the government was still…
