Popular holiday destinations Sri Lanka and Grenada, are among the latest destinations to begin using the world’s first ever global safety and hygiene stamp, launched recently by the World Travel & Tourism Council.
Hear from world-leading medical, epidemiology and public health experts
Top global scientists and health experts shared latest facts, science-based insights and best practices for living in a world with COVID-19.
UK is heading to ‘worst case scenario’
Nearly three million jobs in the UK – and 197 million worldwide in the Travel & Tourism sector globally – look set to be lost due to the collapse of travel, according to the World Travel & Tourism Council.
Governments should implement testing facilities at airports
WTTC is calling upon Governments around the world to begin a substantial programme of investment to ensure comprehensive testing facilities are implemented at airports, which will help prevent the spread of Covid-19 and see the return of safe travels.
WTTC launches Insurance Guidelines for the Travel & Tourism sector
The guidelines are designed to drive the return of safe, healthy and responsible travel and ensure the insurance sector is fit for purpose to operate for travellers in the ‘new normal’ of the COVID-19 world.
WTTC warns country-wide border closures could seriously stall global economic recovery
WTTC is urging authorities to take a more carefully calibrated approach and introduce localised measures, and only when necessary.
Travellers should ‘wear to care’ in the new normal
Mandatory mask-wearing will protect travellers and workers. People need to learn to live with COVID-19 until a vaccine is widely available
WTTC and Carnival present unique COVID-19 Scientific Summit
WTTC to collaborate with world’s largest cruise company on convening leading global scientists and health experts on July 23 for a virtual public forum on the latest insights and best practices for living in a world with COVID-19.
European flight bookings reveal ‘London is falling’
Flight booking data shows London has fallen to the bottom of the top 10 most booked European cities, as border restrictions and UK quarantine regulations choked travel, according to joint research by the World Travel & Tourism Council and ForwardKeys.
WTTC call for greater clarity so Brits can travel abroad again
WTTC believes the recovery of the wider Travel & Tourism sector desperately needs a clear timeline for when overseas travel can resume.
