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Industry warned to expect 'intense' travel restrictions until May

Government
Rob Gill
28 January 2021

The travel industry will not be “home and dry” even with a successful roll-out of the Covid-19 vaccine throughout the UK in the coming months.

Budget-friendly travel – especially in the UK's favourite holiday destination, Spain – is set to be most popular

Tim Hames, a senior adviser to global consultancy FTI Consulting, warned the industry there were likely to be “intense and potentially tighter limits on travel” until May.

Hames, appearing at the Virtual ITT Conference Forum, said: “The government has come to take a different view of international mobility than in the early stages of the crisis.”

He also thought the government would have cancelled overseas travel in summer 2020, as well as closed travel corridors in late September 2020, with the benefit of hindsight.