LATA pushes for home quarantine for returning red list travellers
The Latin American Travel Association (LATA) wants members to put pressure on their MP to highlight the problems in the current red list strategy.
They are urged to write to MPs to push parliamentarians for a review.
Explaining the reasoning, Danny Callaghan, CEO of LATA, said: “The emergence of the Omicron variant has demonstrated how quickly a situation can develop and how the consequences for consumers can be significant.
To be able to go on holiday to a country and then, out of the blue, to be faced with a multi-thousand-pound bill for hotel quarantine cannot be the right way to manage these issues.”
I would like to understand why, if I were to test positive for the Omicron variant today, I am able to quarantine at home, but a person arriving from a red list country is not trusted to do the same.”
“Imagine if the Government went around collecting Omicron-positive people from their homes, dragging them off to some shabby hotel for 10 days, and then charging over two thousand pounds for the privilege – there’d be uproar. Yet returning Brits are expected to do just that.”
We need a sensible approach that allows people to go home and quarantine there.”
LATA has provided members with a template letter to share with their MPs.
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