Simon Calder: How the pandemic brought the world’s leading travel industry to its knees

Pandemic panic led to ‘millions of taxpayers’ cash blown on measures with no apparent plan or proof that it was working to protect public health’

Travel Correspondent for The Independent newspaper and Keynote Speaker at 2024’s ASAP Annual Conference Simon Calder outlines the timeline for the rise of the COVID-19 pandemic, its influence on the UK’s travel industry, and questions whether all the decisions taken were really needed.

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