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No agents invited to first new travel taskforce meeting

Government
James Chapple
2 March 2021

The Department for Transport has promised the Global Travel Taskforce, reconvened to explore how international travel can be restarted safely this summer, will continue to engage with the travel sector before it reports to government on 12 April.

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Transport secretary Grant Shapps chaired the first meeting of the new taskforce on Tuesday (2 March), which the DfT said was attended by several government departments, along with "industry bodies, transport operators and travel agencies".


However, no independent travel agencies feature on a full list of attendees supplied to TTG by the DfT.