The travel sector headed into November eagerly anticipating an imminent update from the government’s new Global Travel Taskforce on efforts to reduce the UK’s current quarantine requirements through a new “test and release” scheme, although this was thrown into doubt at the weekend by the announcement of a new national lockdown.
After ministers decided not to invite any travel industry representatives to join the taskforce, the Department for Transport (DfT) confirmed to TTG it had consulted with more than 100 stakeholders since the group was announced on 7 October.
It also revealed it had consulted Abta and engaged with stakeholders from across the aviation, maritime, international rail, supply chain, and tourism sectors, as well as with healthcare, testing experts and the UK’s devolved administrations.
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