EU schools put off coming to Britain post-Brexit due to new passport rules

According to a survey from the Tourism Alliance teachers from EU schools are “finding it too difficult to organise trips to the UK”. The UK-based Tourism Alliance director Kurt Janson said: “Businesses that rely on international travel have done badly, language schools, events, conferences. And because booking times for these things are longer, they will take longer to recover.”

Data from the Tourism Alliance revealed that 52 percent of tourism businesses suffered a decrease in revenue of over 50 percent after Brexit.

This included tour operators, language schools, and events.

Now, almost a quarter of these businesses still have booking levels for the first quarter of 2022 that are down over 50 percent.

Mr Janson, speaking to City A.M., said: “Now that we have left the EU and all visitors are required to have a full passport, teachers are finding it too difficult to organise trips to the UK.

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Also, 55 percent say they have less than two months of cash reserves.

The Tourism Alliance study found that 11 percent of tourism businesses are very likely to fail while 40.8 percent say they are quite likely.

Tourism Alliance has now called on the Government to increase funding for international marketing.

They want the UK to issue a low-cost 5-year visitor visa and revise travel package regulations and set up a “list of travellers” scheme for student groups.

Mr Janson, speaking to City A.M., said: “Now that we have left the EU and all visitors are required to have a full passport, teachers are finding it too difficult to organise trips to the UK and are taking their English language students to Ireland and Malta instead – risking the collapse of the UK’s £1.2bn Language School industry and an important component of the UK’s soft power.

“Implementing a simple ‘list of travellers’ scheme whereby teacher accompanying schoolchildren list their pupils on a document that is checked on the way in and out of the country would solve this.”