July 12th - Center Parcs is Coming Home
Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast
The Independent
3.6 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Green list speculation mounts.
Center Parcs is coming home. To Crawley.
And Heathrow’s woes continue.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, it's Monday the 12th of July and thank you for joining me for the latest on travel and destinations from the Green List and the travel desk of the Independent. |
| 0:11.0 | Today, ahead of Thursday's announcement, Green List speculation mounts. |
| 0:18.0 | Centre Parks is coming home to Crawley and Heath Rose Woes continue. |
| 0:25.8 | This podcast is of course completely free as is my weekly travel email which you can get |
| 0:33.2 | every Friday morning just go to independent.com.uk forward slash newsletters. |
| 0:41.5 | Today, I've been writing about how nine European countries, as well as Canada, Hong Kong and |
| 0:48.4 | Taiwan, appear to make the Green List criteria. |
| 0:59.4 | You will be aware, I'm sure, that on Thursday, Grant Shaps, the Transport Secretary, |
| 1:04.1 | will announce the latest changes to the traffic light system. |
| 1:08.8 | Every country, your recall, is assigned either to the Red List, |
| 1:13.8 | which is a hotel quarantine for oral arrivals, or the Green list, which is a hotel quarantine for oral rivals, or the green list, |
| 1:22.4 | which means no quarantine, and also to the amber list, which means 10 days of self-isolation at home, |
| 1:30.9 | although that is actually changing for British people, British residents who have been jabbed by the NHS. That changes on Monday. In order to facilitate easier travel for people who aren't in that happy category, |
| 1:39.2 | of course it's very important that there's new countries on the green list. |
| 1:45.6 | Although some medical people would say, as well as the Labour Party, stop international travel. |
| 1:51.6 | It's not doing any good. |
| 1:53.1 | Don't you know there's a pandemic on? |
| 1:55.6 | Anyway, Robert Doyle, who previously was the strategy director for IAG, which is British Airways |
| 2:04.9 | parent company, has reverse engineered the UK government's allocations so far to try to |
| 2:12.2 | identify the criteria they're using. And having applied those to the statistics for a wide range of countries, |
| 2:20.7 | he now says that Germany, Italy and Poland, all really important countries for people |
| 2:28.0 | travelling for either family, for work or for holidays, they should be in the low-risk category, along with Austria, Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, |
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