Government

Heathrow COO: Agents have 'critical role' in relaying Covid rules

Heathrow chief stresses how trade can help customers to be prepared for travel

Atol protection for RCNs extended to 30 April

Air Travel Trust makes decision to extend protection for another month

Irish hotel quarantine rules take effect

Arrivals from more than 30 countries, including the UAE, Austria, Brazil and South Africa, will now have to self-isolate at a government quarantine hotel for 14 days

BTA: 'UK must lead international travel recovery'

Association details submission to government’s Global Travel Taskforce

EU's travel pass fast-tracked for summer roll-out

MEPs vote to speed up legislative process to lay foundation for union’s digital green certificate proposal

Abta sets out demands in submission to Global Travel Taskforce

It calls for ultimately minimal restrictions on travel to most destinations and regionalised Foreign Office advice

Scottish govt pledges £25m for tourism recovery

Cash injection for domestic tourism sector to fund holiday vouchers, day out discounts and new marketing spend

Watch: Aviation and maritime minister faces new TTG grilling

Aviation and maritime minister Robert Courts faced another grilling from TTG as part of TTG’s Agenda 2021 seminar, taking place on the afternoon of Thursday 25 March

Single rapid Covid test 'as effective as quarantine'

New report commissioned by coalition of aviation stakeholders and submitted to government’s Global Travel Taskforce advocates using rapid antigen tests to restart international travel safely

Advantage creates agent taskforce to feed into govt talks

Consortium invites 15 agent members to contribute to its representations to the government’s Global Travel Taskforce

Clia calls for phased resumption of US cruising in July

Association urges US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to lift its ’outdated’ framework for conditional sailing order

VaccinAid confirmed as partner of TTG's Agenda 2021

VaccinAid will be supporting TTG’s Agenda 2021 seminar on Thursday with more details about the campaign and how travel companies can get involved revealed during the afternoon

Irene Hays: 'People are absolutely desperate to travel'

Hays Travel chief discussed seacations, vaccine certification and the nation’s wanderlust on the BBC’s Lockdown Live special on Tuesday (23 March)

Johnson hopeful of international travel update by 5 April

‘I certainly hope to be saying some more by 5 April,’ said prime minister Boris Johnson at the government’s latest Covid briefing on Tuesday (23 March)

'Ibiza needs tourism, but at what cost?'

With the island set to reopen to German tourists this Easter, Martin Makepeace questions whether islanders’ hard work bringing down rates of Covid infection is worth risking for just for a few days’ reward

£5k holiday fines and mid-May travel restart dealt further blow

Holidaymakers could face fines of up to £5,000 if they attempt to travel overseas without good reason before July, according to national press reports

'Scrap refund credit notes', says On the Beach

‘Extending the refund credit note deadline only kicks the can down the road – these vouchers are not in the best interests of consumers,’ says the OTA’s chief executive Simon Cooper

Summer dependent on other countries' progress – Hays

Hays Travel chair Irene Hays tells BBC infection and vaccination rates elsewhere likely to govern Brits’ travel options this summer

Govt exploring traffic light system for travel restart – reports

Testing and vaccine certification likely to play a key role in restarting international, according to new national press reports

What question would you put to the aviation and maritime minister?

This week, TTG will be interviewing aviation and maritime minister Robert Courts – and we want to know what questions you would like us to put to him

Jersey to begin loosening border restrictions next month

Blue Islands confirms it is ready to up flights to Jersey from 26 April

Variant risk casts fresh doubts on overseas summer holidays

Ministers and scientists have warned new Covid-19 variants, allowed to spread through overseas leisure travel, could risk the UK’s vaccination programme and its recovery from the pandemic

UK government's Portugal travel ban lifted after two months

Tourist board chief Luis Araujo hails move, which came into effect from 4am on Friday (19 March)

Croatia in talks with UK over summer travel

Tourism minister Nikolina Brnjac said Croatia would seek to restore British tourism numbers to pre-pandemic levels ‘as soon as possible’