Aito has called on the government to acknowledge the travel industry’s contribution to the economy after the UK narrowly avoided falling into recession last year.
Aito is angry proposed PTR rule changes will not protect operators during airport disruption
The association said a headline from The Telegraph on Friday (10 February) which read "Surge from travel agents helped UK to dodge recession" came "in sharp contrast" to the government’s own outlook.
The Telegraph story picked up on data from Capital Economics, which revealed the sector providing the largest positive contribution to UK growth in the last three months of 2022 (+14.8%) was administrative and support service activities – "particularly travel agents".
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