Travel and tourism stakeholders call for urgent alignment and co-ordination in Government responses to infection surge
Furthering the call for co-ordinated travel regimes, and highlighting the impact on employment created by the travel and tourism industries, a broad group of key travel and tourism stakeholders including ACI EUROPE joined in a public statement on 22nd November urging Member States to better coordinate and align their health and travel policy responses to avoid re-imposing restrictions to the freedom of movement across Europe.
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has stated that in the current epidemiological situation travel restrictions are ineffective in reducing virus transmission, hospitalisations, or deaths, said the statement authors. In these circumstances, considering that the EU adult population is now 76.6% vaccinated and with community transmission already high in most EU Member States, measures aimed at limiting border crossing would not carry any public health benefit, but would negatively impact local economies.
Mandatory travel restrictions and public health protocols must be based on strong evidence of benefit, as well as principles of proportionality. Read the full statement here.
