It comes after the UK and French governments agreed last night that rapid-result lateral flow Covid tests could be deployed to allow "essential" travellers and freight operators to travel across the Channel.
Lata chief executive Danny Callaghan said: "The tourism industry has, for some time, been calling for the use of rapid-result testing to facilitate the restart of tourism, both outbound and inbound.
"We hope that this acceptance by the government of the efficacy of rapid testing can be further deployed to help the beleaguered travel industry.
