International travel should be safely reopened from 17th of May according to Crawley’s MP.
Henry Smith has called on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to implement a risk-based approach to travel, which would allow trips to low-risk nations, with few or no restrictions put on travellers.
He has organised an open letter on the subject, signed by more than 40 Parliamentary colleagues.
Smith said:
“Since last March, our aviation, travel and tourism industries have been amongst the worst affected by the pandemic with passenger numbers falling to historically low levels leading to devastating impacts which are being felt throughout the UK.
“We cannot begin our long road to recovery if we keep our skies shut throughout the summer months. The introduction of a risk-based approach to the restart of international travel provides the right balance between reopening travel and ensuring that we remain vigilant against Covid-19 variants of concern.
“A failure to build on the progress of our vaccination programme and back a risk-based reopening of international travel will be devastating not only to the businesses involved, but their employees, their communities and the UK economy as a whole.
“I urge the Government to back a risk-based approach to international travel and to put measures in place that allow our world class aviation, travel and tourism industries to begin to recover from the significant challenges that they continue to face and allow the safe resumption of international travel.”
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