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Atta pleads for clarity on 'mysterious' red list methodology

Government
Will Payne
30 July 2021

The African Travel and Tourism Association (Atta) has urged the UK government to provide some clarity on the methodology behind its traffic light system, describing the red list classification as a "mystery".

Travel to southern Africa has been hit with an "enormous dent to consumer confidence" says Mears (Image credit:Hu Chen/Unsplash)

The association urged all of the African nation ambassadors in the UK to lobby foreign secretary Dominic Raab to "understand what they need to do to put their countries on the consideration list for double vaccinated UK travellers".

Atta welcomed the UK government’s announcement that fully vaccinated travellers from amber countries no longer need to quarantine as a "step closer" to the same soon being possible for red-listed locations.

Nigel Vere Nicoll, president of Atta, said African countries will begin to lose market share to other destinations if "the UK doesn’t start sending travellers to Africa soon".