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Industry’s ‘resilience’ may have allowed govt to ignore pleas for support

Government
Rob Gill
8 April 2021

The travel industry’s “resilience” during the pandemic may have allowed the government to ignore its pleas for sector-specific support.

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The CAA has launched a new Atol claims portal (Credit: Craig Whitehead / Unsplash)

Constant calls for specific financial support to help the industry have fallen on deaf ears in Westminster over the past year, and some have said that any prospect of securing this kind of backing from government may be over.

Speakers at the latest Elman Wall online seminar on Thursday (8 April), entitled One Year On: Recovery at Last?, agreed that the relatively small number of failures within the travel industry since the crisis started may have worked against the calls for sector support.