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Will travel ever find its forever home?

Government
James Chapple
8 February 2023

Fresh calls have been made for the outbound travel sector to be placed under the sole control of the Department for Transport (DfT) and the remit of a single minister – and they’re far from the first.

(Credit: Dalia Nava/Pexels)

Travel is still not achieving the cut-through it seeks in Westminster (Credit: Dalia Nava / Pexels)

The Advantage Travel Partnership and Aito said prime minister Rishi Sunak’s decision on Tuesday (7 February) to dissolve the government’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (Beis) presented an ideal opportunity to bring "much-needed" change to the way in which outbound travel is regulated, governed and represented.


Beis’s responsibilities, which included oversight for package travel rules and reform, are expected to be divided between four new, combined or "refocused" departments.