Please see ABTA's response to the announcement that Wales will make changes to its international travel measures: https://gov.wales/welsh-government-confirms-international-travel-changes-and-calls-for-pcr-test-retention 

ABTA’s Director of Public Affairs, Luke Petherbridge, said:

“We welcome confirmation that the Welsh Government will align with the rest of the UK by removing pre-departure testing for fully vaccinated travellers from 4 October. This will make the process much easier for returning travellers and go some way to reducing costs. However, the decision not to confirm alignment on Day 2 testing rules – enabling the use of much cheaper lateral flow tests - is disappointing, and we urge Ministers to reconsider. It is important to remember that anyone who provides a positive lateral flow test after travelling would still be required to seek a confirmatory PCR test, so genomic sequencing ability will be retained. Keeping in place more expensive testing arrangements in Wales will leave the Welsh travel and tourism industry facing a competitive disadvantage and damage the recovery of the sector.”
 

Notes to editors
ABTA has been a trusted travel brand for over 70 years. Our purpose is to help our Members to grow their businesses successfully and sustainably, and to help their customers travel with confidence. The ABTA brand stands for support, protection and expertise. This means consumers have confidence in ABTA and a strong trust in ABTA Members. These qualities are core to us as they ensure that holidaymakers remain confident in the holiday products that they buy from our Members.

We help our Members and their customers navigate through today's changing travel landscape by raising standards in the industry; offering schemes of financial protection; providing an independent complaints resolution service should something go wrong; giving guidance on issues from sustainability to health and safety and by presenting a united voice to government to ensure the industry and the public get a fair deal.

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