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Senior travel industry figures have reacted furiously to the transport secretary’s warning that holidays this year will depend upon “everybody having their vaccinations”.
Speaking on BBC Breakfast, Grant Shapps said anyone hoping to travel abroad “would have to wait for other countries to catch up”.
He later said: “I simply don’t know the answer to the question of where we’ll be up to this summer. It’s too early to be able to give you that information.
“You’d want to wait until that’s clear before booking anything. The best advice is: do nothing at this stage.”
Julia Lo Bue-Said, chief executive at Advantage Travel Partnership – a consortium of agents – said Mr Shapps had shown…