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ABTA has postponed the 2020 Morocco-based Travel Convention, due to be held in Marrakech in October 2020, until the same time in 2021.

Lufthansa Group has implemented a restructuring package in response to the significant decline expected in air travel as a result of the coronavirus crisis, affecting almost all flight operations of the Lufthansa Group.

The Latin American Travel Association has initiated a government petition to temporarily suspend aspects of the Package Travel Regulations (PTR) to help companies in the travel industry, such as agents, survive the COVID-19 crisis.

Travel agents can book Caribbean holidays for 2021 and 2022 with Sandals Resorts? booking bonus discount offers.

Kosmar, which incorporates a travel agency, in-house operator and homeworking business, has launched a financial and wellbeing package initiative to support colleagues during the COVID-19 crisis.

Jill Waite, from Pole Travel, has written a letter to ABTA on behalf of a group of agents in the north-west of England in regard to Package Travel Regulations and the impact the lack of urgent amendments in the current crisis is having on travel businesses.

The day after launching its #SaveFutureTravel campaign, ABTA has announced that 13,500 people have already responded by emailing their MP to amend the Package Travel Regulations (PTR) in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In response to Foreign & Commonwealth Office advice, which recommends against all but essential travel, Advantage Travel Partnership has announced that its 2020 conference will be postponed.