Rejected petition Force travel companies to provide full refunds for holidays on amber list

Some of the UK’s largest providers of package holidays are refusing to provide refunds for holidays that are to amber destinations, despite people being unable to quarantine for at least 5 days upon return, in addition to expensive tests both before departure and arrival, as well as on return.

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Force travel companies to provide refunds for those who are unable to quarantine for a minimum of 5 days upon return. Providing free rebookings for 2022 is not an acceptable alternative- especially when most of the 2021 holidays are reschedule bookings from 2020 (often at an additional cost) and 2022 are increasingly more expensive.

Travellers have left their money with tour operators for over a year and should be able to cancel without penalty if they are unable to quarantine upon return.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.

Arrangements for refunding, changing or rebooking travel are a civil matter between individual travellers and holiday operators, not the Government or Parliament.

We could accept a petition calling on the Government to create a fund to reimburse money lost due to Covid-19 travel cancellations, if that's something you would like to happen.

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 7 May 2021
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