{"id":118649,"date":"2020-04-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/anat-joins-wtaaa-and-requests-government-support-to-save-travel-agencies\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T17:09:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T15:09:30","slug":"anat-joins-wtaaa-and-requests-government-support-to-save-travel-agencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/anat-joins-wtaaa-and-requests-government-support-to-save-travel-agencies\/","title":{"rendered":"ANAT joins WTAAA and requests government support to save travel agencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>ANAT, as a member of ECTAA (the international organization grouping national travel agency associations within the EU), joins the position expressed by the World Travel Agents Associations Alliance, WTAAA, and requests government support to save travel agencies, which are extremely severely affected by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>WTAAA calls on governments worldwide to provide the necessary financial resources to support consumers, travel agencies, and air transport as a whole.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Representing 67 countries and markets worldwide, WTAAA is deeply concerned about the unprecedented catastrophic impact of Covid-19 on the tourism industry, which compromises viability across all sectors, including airlines and travel agencies, hotels, tour operators, cruise lines, ground passenger transport \u2013 including rail transport \u2013 and tourist destinations globally.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Therefore, to the extent that operational continuity is not guaranteed, there is a risk that a potential cessation of operations by some players in this field will generate a domino effect with extremely serious consequences, both for the travel industry and for the global economy. This is why some governments correctly understand the situation and have proactively approved support measures and rescue plans. However, more is needed.<\/div>\n<div>WTAAA strongly supports IATA&#8217;s pressure for governments worldwide to provide, as a priority, the necessary financial resources to support consumers requesting the fulfillment of contracted air transport services.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>WTAAA calls on governments worldwide to include among all financial aid and other support measures taken to sustain air transport, the amounts necessary for the support desperately needed by the community of travel agencies that sell tickets on behalf of airlines. Travel agencies are a critical component of this channel, without which airline ticket bookings cannot and will not take place.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wall-street.ro\" data-wplink-url-error=\"true\">Wall-Street<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h3>\n<p><strong>What are ANAT and WTAAA requesting from governments?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>These organizations are requesting financial resources to support consumers, travel agencies, and air transport, ensuring operational continuity in the tourism sector.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why is the situation of travel agencies considered critical?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Agencies are essential for airline ticket bookings and the stability of the entire tourism service chain; their collapse could trigger a domino effect in the global economy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who does WTAAA represent?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>WTAAA represents 67 countries and global markets, including national travel agency associations such as ANAT from Romania (via ECTAA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANAT, as a member of ECTAA (the international organization grouping national travel agency associations within the EU), joins the position expressed by the World Travel Agents Associations Alliance, WTAAA, and requests government support to save travel agencies, which are extremely severely affected by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.&nbsp; WTAAA calls on governments worldwide to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":68065,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2858],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-118649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tourism"],"article_style_override":"","post-style":"","post_via":"","post-top-image":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/turism-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118649"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=118649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}