70 travel and tourism organisations express their support to any effort – based on scientific evidence – to keep protecting and ensuring the freedom of movement and avoid a patchwork of diverging national measures within the EU/EEA as well as internationally.

In light of the evolving epidemiological situation and the continued emergence of new COVID-19 variants (e.g. Omicron), the European Tourism Manifesto alliance, a group of 70 public and private travel and tourism organisations and the voice of the sector in Europe, acknowledges the European Commission’s proposals for updated Council Recommendations for intra-EU travel and for inbound travel to the EU published last week.

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