Summer holidays abroad will be lost , warns travel industry Hazel Plush
Travel industry leaders have spoken out in warning that summer holidays will be lost again this year, if ministers prohibit international leisure travel until the entire population is vaccinated.
This morning, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps suggested that international leisure travel may not be permitted until autumn 2021, the deadline by which the Government aims to have offered the vaccine to every UK citizen.
A spokesperson from ABTA – The Travel Association, told Telegraph Travel: If we wait for the full rollout of the vaccination programme in the UK before people start to travel overseas, we’ll lose another summer season to the pandemic – something the travel industry can’t afford.
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The coronavirus pandemic is still extremely serious. Families are grieving: more than 108,000 people have died from Covid-19 in the UK. The virus spread rapidly across the world and into the UK by air travel. And the UK lockdown means holidays at home or abroad are currently illegal. But many people are looking ahead to later in 2021 and the opportunities for future holidays. With the UK well ahead of other major European nations in its.