ARRIVALS EVERYONE'S TALKING ABOUT...
The need for traveller testing “IT’S
DESPERATELY DISAPPOINTING THAT THERE IS NO SENSE OF URGENCY TO GET TESTING UP AND RUNNING AT UK BORDERS. BUSINESS TRAVEL, TRADE AND TOURISM RELY ON INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL, BUT IT IS STAGNATING WHILE EVERYONE IS STUCK IN QUARANTINE” Abby Penston, CEO Focus Travel Partnership
“You can't mitigate risks to zero, but there is surely more risk going to a supermarket than being tested, twice, and boarding a flight" Drew Crawley, Chief Commercial Officer American Express GBT
“I THINK TESTING WILL BE AROUND FOR SOME TIME TO COME. MAYBE IT BECOMES THE NEXT METAL DETECTOR” Clive Wratten, CEO of the Business Travel Association
We are now seven months into a pandemic with a government that appears to have no thought-out strategy or concrete timescale on testing for travellers, which is creating confusion and frankly utter chaos” Julia Lo Bue-Said, CEO Advantage Travel Partnership
“SOME HAVE PROMOTED THE IDEA WE SHOULD TEST AT BORDERS. THE CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER HAS BEEN CLEAR IT WOULD NOT CAPTURE ENOUGH INFORMATION ON THOSE WHO ARE ASYMPTOMATIC. ACCEPTING A DAY-ZERO TEST ON ARRIVAL COULD ALLOW SIGNIFICANT NUMBERS OF PEOPLE TO BELIEVE THEY ARE COVID FREE WHEN THEY NOT, AND THAT WOULD CREATE A NEW PROBLEM Grant Shapps, UK Transport Secretary
FOR THE TRAVEL INDUSTRY” “Traveller testing is a large part of the answer. Other countries do have testing and it works very efficiently. It’s bemusing and disappointing that the UK does not” Scott Davies, CEO Institute of Travel Management
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