France is the second most popular destination for Britons after Spain, which was already on the list of the British government.
“It’s another devastating blow to the travel industry that is already suffering from the worst crisis in its history,” Airlines UK told CNN Business.
The company in the sector said that “widespread, weekly ‘stop and go’ changes” for travel corridors are disruptive for airlines and passengers, and urged the government to take a more targeted approach to quarantines.
The International Air Transport Association has called for a more “pragmatic approach” to quarantine.
The new restrictions will bring efforts to attract tourists back to the European Union, where the travel and tourism sector risks losing up to € 1.2 trillion ($ 1.4 trillion) in GDP and 18.3 this year million jobs, according to the World Travel and Tourism Council.
France is the most visited destination in the world, with 89 million tourist arrivals in 2018, according to the UN World Tourism Organization.
“While many Europeans would like to travel and enjoy the summer of 2020, they do not have the confidence to book a trip, seeing the lack of clarity about border barriers, the availability of transport, along with the protocol for health and safety in their chosen destination, “the European Travel Commission, a grouping of national tourism organizations, said in a statement Thursday.
A positive trend in bookings for flights within Europe at the beginning of July has “disappeared”, it added. En Global bookings to Europe were down 72% in July, compared to the same month last year, according to travel analytics firm Sojern.
Data from the World Travel and Tourism Council show that travel and tourism accounted for 22.6 million jobs, or 11.2% of the EU workforce last year. It is estimated that nearly 3 million jobs could be lost in Britain due to the collapse of travel.
– Chris Liakos, Eoin McSweeney and Alexander Durie reported.
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