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TTG Tracker: New data paints stark picture of Omicron slump

Government
Rob Gill
7 January 2022

Travel will be hoping to bounce back this month after the government’s Omicron travel restrictions drove new enquiries and bookings down to their lowest level of 2021 shortly before Christmas.

Agents hope pre-Christmas storm clouds over the industry will start to clear in January as restrictions are eased (credit: sebastian-molina-fotografia-TyL4MDmxLck-unsplash.jpg)

(Credit: Sebastian Molina / Unsplash)

The last TTG Tracker survey of 2021 found that only 74% of agents had received enquiries in the two weeks before Christmas, with just 60% taking new bookings during this period.

But this pre-Christmas gloom may have already started to lift, with the announcement that the UK government is scrapping pre-departure tests and easing the Day 2 testing rules.

The majority of agents (67%) said that both enquiries and sales had gone down during the two-week period up to 23 December, compared with the previous fortnight.