UKinbound

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has called for young people to be able to move freely to and from the EU. ABTA has welcomed the Mayor’s comments, saying they reflect growing political support to extend the Youth Mobility Scheme, to EU countries to help UK staff work abroad and EU workers to come to the UK. 

It’s three years this week since the UK officially left the European Union, the message to government is that there is still work to be done to resolve outstanding issues.

A new joint-report from ABTA and UKinbound outlines the value of international travel to the UK economy in terms of supporting jobs, economic contributions and taxes paid to HM Treasury. 

UKinbound has written to the department for transport asking for day two testing for vaccinated international arrivals to be scrapped at the next travel review due at the end of the month

The Britain and Ireland Marketplace (BIM), which takes place on 28 January at the O2 Intercontinental and online on 1 February is posting record numbers of attendees

Boris Johnson has confirmed that pre-departure travel Covid-19 tests to enter England from overseas will be scrapped from 7 January

UKinbound has released stark new figures indicating that its members expect international visitors to be down 75 per cent in November and December, compared to 2019

New data from UKinbound, shows 88% of tour operators and destination management companies are set to make large scale redundancies as a result of the Covid-19 crisis unless the Government provides more financial support to the sector.

During its annual convention in Bristol, UKinbound CEO Joos Croft declared that the travel trade association would lobby the to extend the transition period following Brexit, as the industry struggles to find qualified staff with the right language skills. The declaration was driven by findings from the organisations latest ‘Business Barometer’ results, showing that the […]

Following the release of the Migration Advisory Committee’s (MAC) report on the UK’s immigration system yesterday — which rejected the government’s proposals for an Australian style points-based immigration process — UKinbound CEO’s has responded Joss Croft, who took charge of the trade association for the country’s inbound tourism industry in 2018, said: “Designing a future immigration […]