UK travel industry ‘choked’ by Covid restrictions

Seven in ten firms planning redundancies as holiday bookings collapse

Covid-19 test centre at Heathrow Terminal 5
Covid-19 test centre at Heathrow Terminal 5
(Image credit: Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP via Getty Images)

Travel bosses are calling for a “significant overhaul” of Downing Street’s traffic light system and the end of mandatory Covid-19 testing as the industry faces the fallout of a collapse in summer holiday bookings.

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