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'It's time to look forward to travel truly roaring back'

Government
Daniel Pearce
4 January 2022

This has got to stop, for all our sakes, this year. Agents entering the new year could be forgiven for feeling they were marking Groundhog Day, rather than New Year’s Day.

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It’s already more than two years since we started hearing about the virus in China – and it’ll soon be two years since travel as we knew it came to a halt.

Now here we are again with the new uncertainty brought on by the Omicron variant – and what seems to have been another failure from government to offer the travel industry genuine sector-specific support.

That said, at the time of writing in the final days of 2021, this present crisis-within-a-crisis does feel different. It’s encouraging to see travel brands large and small still marketing next summer, even while new bookings and travel to certain destinations are currently on ice.