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The best of your letters, comments and social media this week Furlough: We need wage subsidy
I am going to write to Rishi Sunak to ask him to change the furlough scheme for September and October to an ‘ad-hoc wage subsidy scheme’, as used in some other countries. It means that instead of paying people to stay at home, he pays them to come to work. I have been on my own here since March 28; my two colleagues are at home, furloughed, and I will keep them that way as long as the scheme is open, but I really need their energy and enthusiasm back. It’s Catch-22: I have no cashflow to pay them, but if they came back, we’d get more sales. The flip-flop quarantine rules have knocked us sideways. While we have plenty of bookings for next year, we have nothing much to tide us over for the winter. A wage subsidy scheme would mean spending the same amount of taxpayers’ money but would help kick-start businesses and get the economy moving again. Alice Hook, partner, Appleby Travel, Cumbria
Gemma Antrobus @LuxuryTravelGem Haslemere Travel It appears to me that @GOVUK is treating the travel industry like the Hokey Cokey song: In. Out. In. Out. Shake it all about. Please stop. Has anyone done the calculations on what it would cost to let this industry crumble?
Riviera: Facebook posts so positive
I just wanted to say well done and a big thank you to Paul and Ashley of Riviera Travel for their brilliant Facebook posts following their sample tours. They have been so positive during these difficult times and it is really great to see how things are right now in areas of Europe that we know so well and love to sell. It has given me renewed confidence and I’ve shared their information with a number of my clients. Christina Astill, GoCruise
Julie Franklin @jfranklin_skye Hotelplan The travel industry is on its knees, thousands of jobs lost already and more to come, yet no help is offered by @RishiSunak. What other industry has refunded everything it has sold in the last 12 months? And we have nothing coming in because of government’s blanket decisions.
Lack of support: ‘Kick in the teeth’
Story: Malta quarantine restrictions are ‘even more worrying for agents than France’ Safety is the top priority but the taxpayer is paying 50% for McDonald’s meals when it was thriving in the first place, yet no support for travel is a real kick in the teeth. Paul Gallagher
I don’t have a major issue with the notion of keeping the UK safe. What I do have a major issue with is the lack of notice, the lack of clarity for the industry and, most importantly, the complete and utter lack of financial support for the industry. Jane Karatas
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Cruise: I dread daily sad news
Story: P&O Cruises extends suspension into November So sad. I think we need to write this year off completely and come back strong next year. Going to work each day to hear more devastating news like this is sad – I dread it. Sam Harland
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