{"id":1416,"date":"2021-01-26T02:27:05","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T02:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/?p=26972"},"modified":"2021-01-26T02:27:05","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T02:27:05","slug":"wttc-says-now-is-time-for-internationally-recognised-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/global-travel-news\/wttc-says-now-is-time-for-internationally-recognised-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"WTTC Says Now is Time for Internationally Recognised Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"WTTC<\/a> <\/div>\n

London, United Kingdom, January 25, 2021 \/ TRAVELINDEX \/ Gloria Guevara, WTTC President & CEO: \u201cThe latest expected announcement from the UK government, which will force UK arrivals to quarantine in a hotel for up to two weeks at their own cost, will be yet another crushing blow to the ailing UK Travel & Tourism sector.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter months of forced quarantines post travel, there is absolutely no evidence to suggest it works. Even the government\u2019s own figures show quarantines have not proved to be effective in reducing the spread of COVID-19.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Read all the latest WTTC News and Press Releases here.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has said forcing air travellers to quarantine is not recommended and is not an effective public health measure. Community transmission poses a far greater peril than international travel.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe UK Government has put in place a risk avoidance strategy \u2013 at huge social and economic cost to the country \u2013 when it could and should be more effective by managing the risk instead.<\/p>\n

\u201cWTTC believes the only way to revive international travel is for the wholesale introduction of an internationally recognised testing scheme on departure and arrival. This would avoid exporting the virus and enable the free movement of travellers, while observing common sense hygiene protocols such as mask wearing and social distancing.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo inbound British or international traveller would want to embark on a trip knowing they\u2019d face this disruption and be forced to pay for an additional two weeks in a hotel upon arrival, just to satisfy an unnecessary and unhelpful quarantine, which will do nothing to curb COVID-19.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Read all the latest WTTC News and Press Releases here.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cInternational arrivals spend was over \u00a328bn in 2019. So, the longer we delay the restart of international travel, the more profound will its loss be upon the UK economy and further set back its recovery from this punishing pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n

First published at TravelCommunication.net – Global Travel News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

London, United Kingdom, January 25, 2021 \/ TRAVELINDEX \/ Gloria Guevara, WTTC President & CEO: \u201cThe latest expected announcement from the UK government, which will force UK arrivals to quarantine in a hotel for up to two weeks at their own cost, will be yet another crushing blow to the ailing UK Travel & Tourism …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1417,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[314,82,748,81,116,127,110,325,117,121,118,119,111,205,120],"class_list":["post-1416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-travel-news","tag-bernard-metzger","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-tests","tag-covid-19","tag-global-travel-news","tag-gloria-guevara","tag-news","tag-quarantine","tag-tourism-updates","tag-travel-news-hub","tag-travelindex","tag-unwto-news","tag-updates","tag-wttc","tag-wttc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}