(TAN): Popular holiday destinations Sri Lanka in Asia and Grenada, a sovereign state in the West Indies, are among the latest destinations to begin using Safe Travels Stamp, the world’s first ever global safety and hygiene stamp, launched by World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC).
The growing list of endorsements have come from many major holiday and city destinations around the world, with the holiday destinations of Sri Lanka and Grenada joining other summer destinations such as the ever-popular Alicante and Benidorm in Spain.
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Gloria Guevara, WTTC President & CEO, said: “Our Safe Travels Stamp continues to be a great success and we are thrilled to see more popular countries and destinations adopt our global health and hygiene protocols.
Eswatini, the wildlife and safari destination in Southern Africa, joins a growing list of African nations to adopt ‘Safe Travels’, including Rwanda and Tanzania.
WTTC, which represents the global Travel & Tourism private sector, created the Safe Travels Stamp to allow travellers to identify destinations and businesses around the world, which have adopted the global standardised health and hygiene protocols.
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The United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) has welcomed the WTTC Safe Travels Stamp, which places the safety and hygiene of travellers as top priority.
“The WTTC Safe Travels Stamp has had astounding success since its launch. This shows the importance of the initiative not only to countries and destinations, but also, crucially, to travellers and the 330 million people around the world whose livelihoods depend on the Travel & Tourism sector,” Guevara said.
The Safe Travels Stamp represents a critical step in rebuilding consumer confidence in Travel & Tourism and allowing travellers to rest easy knowing that enhanced standards of hygiene are in place and they can once again experience ‘Safe Travels’.
Since the launch of the WTTC Safe Travels Stamp, destination countries and cities around the world have now adopted WTTC’s new protocols, including holiday heavyweights such as Portugal, Dubai, Egypt and Turkey.
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As part of its Safe Travels protocols, these worldwide measures provide consistency and guidance to travel providers and travellers about the new approach to health, hygiene and physical distancing.
The protocols were devised following the experience of WTTC members dealing with COVID19 and based on guidelines from the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
