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Agents urged to 'challenge' Tory candidates over travel policy

High street
Tom Parry
12 July 2022

Agent campaign group Target has called on Conservative leadership hopefuls to set out their policies for helping the travel sector in its post-Covid recovery.

P&O Ferries will face questions from MPs on Thursday

Target (which stands for Travel Agent Reform Group Engaged Together) has written to Abta urging the trade body to contact Tory candidates and quiz them on how they would support the industry should they become the UK’s next prime minister.

Co-founder Jill Waite, director of Pole Travel in Failsworth, called the government’s lack of support for the travel sector during the pandemic “horrendous”.

Fellow Target co-founder, Westoe Travel boss Graeme Brett, urged agents to “take every opportunity” to challenge candidates on their vision for travel and send in questions to TV and radio interviews when opportunities arose.