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WTTC urges govt to abandon 'damaging' traffic light system

Government
Will Payne
4 August 2021

The World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) has called on the UK government to replace the "confusing and damaging" traffic light system with a "simpler classification" of green and red countries only.

The traffic light system has now been dismantled after being in operation since 17 May (credit benn-mcguinness-34oZS8nstfI-unsplash)

Virginia Messina, WTTC senior vice president and acting chief executive, said that although the rhetoric around international travel has changed to "a more a positive note", the travel industry is now in need of "action".