{"id":682,"date":"2020-09-07T08:08:41","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T08:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/?p=26259"},"modified":"2020-09-07T08:08:41","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T08:08:41","slug":"wttc-responds-to-latest-quarantine-announcements-by-greece-and-portugal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/global-travel-news\/wttc-responds-to-latest-quarantine-announcements-by-greece-and-portugal\/","title":{"rendered":"WTTC Responds to Latest Quarantine Announcements by Greece and Portugal"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThis public policy lottery is creating chaos. It shows confusion, mistrust and further seriously undermines the government\u2019s credibility in the eyes of the public.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe urgently need to restore the confidence to travel, not create more uncertainty. It is vital we have a properly coordinated response across the UK, which people \u2013 and the Travel & Tourism sector \u2013 can both understand and have confidence in.<\/p>\n

\u201cBlanket quarantines are disruptive, unhelpful and have a devastating economic impact. Unfortunately, there has been no plan from the government on how to abandon them and focus instead on reopening \u2018air corridors\u2019 between cities which have similar low coronavirus infection rates to revive international business and leisure travel responsibly.<\/p>\n

\u201cWTTC does welcome the government\u2019s \u00a3500 million package for COVID-19 testing. Investing in a comprehensive testing programme for travellers will be less expensive than the economic cost brought on by blanket quarantines, with its devastating impact on jobs and the millions of livelihoods that depend on this sector.\u201d<\/p>\n

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

London, United Kingdom, September 7, 2020 \/ TRAVELINDEX \/ Gloria Guevara, WTTC President & CEO, said: \u201cWTTC shares the bewilderment of British holidaymakers and those working throughout the Travel & Tourism sector, at the absurd spectacle of completely different quarantine rules in England, Scotland and Wales for those now returning back from Greece. A similar …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":683,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[314,81,130,106,116,127,389,122,110,390,117,121,118,119,111,129,205,120],"class_list":["post-682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-travel-news","tag-bernard-metzger","tag-covid-19","tag-europe","tag-featured","tag-global-travel-news","tag-gloria-guevara","tag-greece","tag-health-travel-planner","tag-news","tag-portugal","tag-tourism-updates","tag-travel-news-hub","tag-travelindex","tag-unwto-news","tag-updates","tag-world-travel-and-tourism-council","tag-wttc","tag-wttc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682","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=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}