Both the European Tourism Association (Etoa) and the Business Travel Association (BTA) have asked the government to reach out to the industry as travel tensions around Covid-19 rage on.
Etoa has asked for temporary state aid, fast access to short- and medium-term loans, deferrals of social contributions, the fast launch of a European Unemployment Reinsurance Scheme, protection for workers and the simplification of Visa rules.
It stressed it welcomed the European Commission’s proposal, announced on 16 March, to ban any inbound travel into the EU.
