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28 - Mar - 2016

ABTA Warns of Brexit Adverse Effects of on Travel

There are still concerns over whether or not Great Britain should remain part of the EU or exit. For many in business and leadership positions, there seems to be a consensus that it would be bad for Britain, with negative effects on the economy with a weaker pound, and it could jeopardise travel between the UK and EU. 

In a comprehensive report, The Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA) warns of future uncertainties, especially in travel. One major issue would be that of replacing travel regulations, as there would no longer be the open skies policy and differences in consumer protection laws as well as flight delay compensation.

The ABTA warns that there’s  is a high possibility of an adverse effect on immigrants that work in the UK, in particular that of the hospitality industry as well as the UK leaving the European Health Insurance Card scheme.  
These changes would affect travel as they would lead to uncertainty which could possibly lead to increased costs for traveling businesses as well as the traveling public. The ABTA report finds that an EU exit by Britain would absolutely result in too many potential risks and downsides which are not balanced by any potential upsides. 

Granted, this is taking the report findings from a purely travel standpoint, there may be other benefits unrelated to travel, but all of these things also affect business and the average UK traveler.

With a weaker pound and increased costs, it could have a boomerang effect in the sense that Britons would be less likely to travel as their money no longer stretches as far.  Travel businesses would struggle a bit more as their costs per person would increase, as well as there no longer being a uniform law about consumer compensation, etcetera.

The time to vote is almost upon us, let’s see what Britain decides and then we can predict whether or not all of these fears are true.

By Airport Pickups London