Hotel quarantine would come in addition to requiring arrivals to test negative for Covid up to 72 hours before departure, and the existing 10-day self-isolation requirement for those arriving from all other locations now the country’s travel corridor regime has been suspended.
According to the WTTC, hotel quarantine risks wiping nearly £400,000 from the UK economy every minute; the council said on Wednesday (26 January) the government must act now to protect the travel and tourism sectors, which it said would be instrumental in kick-starting the country’s economic recovery from the Covid crisis.