The chief executive of the Advantage Travel Partnership has said the "draconian" traffic light system caused "irreversible damage to the livelihoods of agents" after it was found the central authority "didn’t know if the system worked or not".
Advantage chief Julia Lo Bue-Said said there would be operational benefits for the trade
A panel of MPs recently concluded the government "blew" £486 million on the regime, without the appropriate mechanism to establish whether it actually helped prevent the import of new cases and variants of Covid-19.
"For my members – and for travel agents across the country – it has long been clear that these draconian measures were not worth the disruption caused, nor were they worth the irreversible damage wreaked upon the livelihoods of travel agents," Julia Lo Bue-Said said.
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