Airlines and airports have been looking at ways to maintain social distancing once lockdown has been relaxed.
Places like Florida are looking at ways to ‘open up’ for the summer, as they rely on the millions of pounds tourism (the main industry) brings to the economy.
ABTA has criticised the minister who said not to book summer holidays and implied that many, many people’s jobs are on the line.
I don’t think for a second that international travel will stop until a vaccine is found. A vaccine might never be found. In fact, I think international travel will resume a lot faster than some people here will feel comfortable with.
As for whether or not countries will accept us, that will depend on the numbers. They aren’t going to deny Brits entry if numbers are under control and testing and tracing is underway. They aren’t going to say, “well we’ll punish you anyway because you didn’t lock down fast enough and your numbers went high at one point”. They are also going to have to consider their own economies.
Our country talks about possible social distancing for the rest of the year. This doesn’t necessarily mean no travel. Additionally if you can get abroad, UK guidelines won’t even matter as you’ll take on the host countries rules.
I am not sure about travel this summer. Part of me thinks ‘no chance’ and the other part wonders whether by late July, we’ll be in a slightly different position.
I do know though, that if I can go, I will go, so I’ll live in hope and see what happens.
Lots of people are quick to say ‘Holidays abroad won’t be happening until x, y, z’...but at the end of the day they don’t know. No one knows.