In this update ETA applications now live Northern Ireland ETA issue still exists The EU side – EES and ETIAS update, ETOA webinar recording, and presentation PTR analysis and briefing next week APPG meeting on short-term let registration TA Youth…

The UK-US data bridge comes into play The government has approved the UK-US data bridge and it will come into force today, the 12th October 2023. The data bridge is an extension to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF) and…

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School group travel survey 2023 results

Today we’re publishing the results of our 2023 survey of school group travel businesses.

Key findings

• Between 2019 and 2022 the number of school children the business surveyed brought to the UK from the EU declined by 81%.
• Over the same period the figure for school children going to the EU declined by only 53%, likely as a result of issues around Covid.
• Recovery from these figures is starkly different between the EU and UK.
• The surveyed businesses expect to recover their school group trips to the EU to 108% of 2019 figures in 2023.
• In contrast, the businesses expect to recover their UK school trips to only 61% of 2019 figures this year.

In this update…

• Tax-free shopping – request for info
• Package Travel Regulations consultation – coming ‘shortly’
• House of Commons library research paper on short-term lets
• Strong recovery of the events market recorded
• YHA Trustee recruitment

Visit Northumberland – Head of Marketing and Partnership job vacancy

In this update…25th May 2023

• Short-term lets registration & planning consultations end soon
• Westminster Hall debate on holiday lets and planning
• Tourism Alliance AGM on 7th June – register now
• BTA review underway
• Tourism Education and Skills group – first meeting