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ITT conference: Travel bouncing back 'with enormous resilience'

Government
James Chapple
15 June 2022

Travel is bouncing back from the pandemic with "enormous resilience", Labour peer Lord Peter Snape of Wednesbury told delegates on the opening day of the 2022 ITT conference in Istanbul.

Lord Snape addressed the ITT conference on Wednesday (Credit: parliament.uk)

Lord Snape stood in on Wednesday morning (15 June) for child abuse and protection barrister, professor Jo Delahunty, who was unable to attend the conference after coming down with Covid-19.


Bringing a unique insight into the corridors of power, Lord Snape urged the government to listen more closely to the voice of the travel industry – aiming a barb at transport secretary Grant Shapps.


He told the conference how the government’s Global Travel Taskforce, which was fronted by Shapps, became known as the "invisible man". "I would like to know from people how much contact they had," he said.