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Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast

June 4th - The Shadow Over Travel

Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast

The Independent

Places & Travel, Leisure, Society & Culture

3.6628 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Travel industry responses to the extraordinary downgrading of Portugal to the amber list – and your rights if you are booked to travel imminently to Portugal.


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0:00.0

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0:30.0

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0:32.5

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0:34.7

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0:54.5

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1:02.8

Hello and thanks for joining me. It's Friday the 4th of June and here's the latest on travel

1:09.2

and those very few destinations on the green list

1:13.2

from the travel desk at the independent. Today I'm looking at reactions to the astonishing

1:20.0

announcement yesterday that instead of opening up travel opportunities they would instead

1:25.0

be closed down and of course I'm going to give the best information I

1:30.0

possibly can about what your rights are if you are booked to travel imminently. I'm just looking

1:36.6

across from the departure lounge at Gibraltar Airport and at the beautiful rock shrouded in

1:42.8

cloud to this morning a bit like the travel industry.

1:47.0

Of course, this podcast is completely free, as is my weekly travel email.

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