TUI head calls for more government support for industry
TUI managing director Dermot Blastland told an ABTA Travel Matters briefing in London today that the government needed to support and help the travel industry and recognise how it can alleviate global poverty.
He also called for the new government to compensate the industry following the volcanic ash cloud debacle this spring.
He told travel industry representatives and journalists in Westminster: “Travel matters to the world economy. Tourism represents 10% of world GDP and is the world’s largest industry. The poorest countries in the world are dependent on tourism for a high percentage of their overseas earnings.
“The UN recognises tourism as a very powerful force for good in reducing poverty.The UK is home to two of the largest travel companies in the world. Yet UK governments to date seem not to recognise, via their overseas development departments, the opportunity this presents in the alleviation of poverty around the world.”
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