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Abta LifeLine: 'Don't bury your head over cost of living struggles'

Charity
Tom Parry
25 August 2022

Abta LifeLine has urged travel professionals struggling amid the mounting cost of living to seek help, insisting “please don’t bury your head in the sand”.

TTG is running a cost of living crisis survey to find out how members of the UK travel trade are coping in the current economic climate

The charity, which offers financial, practical, and emotional support to industry workers facing hardship, said it was experiencing a rise in applications as household bills continue to climb.

LifeLine director Trudie Clements told TTG that although application levels were not currently at highs seen during the Thomas Cook collapse or onset of the Covid pandemic, “they are certainly on the increase”.

“It’s clear we’re going to see an awful lot more in the coming weeks and months,” she warned, and called on travel businesses to increase support of the charity as it braces for the winter.