The association says more than 1,500 member bookings worth £10 million have been affected by suspension of the e-visa and courier system and the insistence travellers present themselves at one of nine visa processing centres around the UK. As a result, Aito members are no longer taking 2022 India bookings.
Aito has 60 members selling India and the country is the core destination for several of them.
In the letter, Aito head of commercial Bharat Gadhoke said: “If you extrapolate this to the numerous other travel organisers in the UK, the scale takes on frightening proportions.
