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Pippa Jacks: 'Sensitive travel marketing could bring lockdown relief'

Government
Pippa Jacks
14 April 2020

After almost four weeks following the same routine in lockdown, many of us might be experiencing a certain sense of Groundhog Day.

The FCDO is lifting Covid-related travel advice on more than 40 countries from 11 October (Credit: Brett Zeck/Unsplash)

That’s certainly how the ongoing lack of clarity around customer refunds has begun to feel too, after travel firms spent yet another week desperately waiting for an update from the government on whether or not Package Travel Regulations will be eased.


In TTG’s virtual seminar last week, Abta boss Mark Tanzer assured us: “We’ve been making those arguments very strongly.” But with no news as we headed into the Easter weekend, tour operators and travel agents could have been forgiven for thinking it was beginning to look unlikely.