The UK lost £4.09 billion in GDP last week due to the decline of business travel trips following Covid-19, the Business Travel Association revealed.
International business travel trips from the UK dropped by 85.34% in the second week of August compared to the same week in pre-pandemic 2019, data from Travelogix for the BTA shows.
There was a fall of 314,477 international and domestic business travel trips in the past week.
The data shows travel restrictions to:
- Republic of Ireland cost UK GDP £753 million
- Germany has cost UK GDP £519 million
- US has cost UK GDP £458 million, and
- Switzerland has cost UK GDP £303 million.