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Govt explains rationale behind 'not closing travel agents'

Government
Jennifer Morris
19 November 2020

The government has responded to TTG’s request for information on why travel agencies have been left off the list of shops deemed non-essential and therefore needing to close during lockdown. 

Agencies were forced to close due to Covid for long periods last year, and earlier this year (Credit: Anastasiia Chepinska/Unsplash)

Abta said this week it was asking the government why it had made a U-turn in at first publishing guidance that travel agents counted as non-essential shops and therefore had to close under the latest lockdown in England, before removing them.