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Posted: Nov 5th, 2009 at 05:26 pm
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+ CALLING ALL TRAVELERS AND TRAVEL AGENTS +
Are you a travel agent? Or do you know a travel agent? Even if your only
interest in going abroad is for holidays, you might be interested to
know what ABTA, the Association of British Travel Agents has been saying
about the ID scheme. In a series of articles in the travel press
earlier this week ABTA's spokesman was parroting the Home Office's line
- that ID cards will make it easier, simpler and cheaper for people to
travel in Europe.
You know different. To get an ID card you would be fingerprinted and put
on an official database for life, subject to unlimited future changes in
regulation and open to your personal details being passed around
government for official convenience. That is not cheap or easy at any price.
NO2ID thinks that ABTA has been suckered by Home Office propaganda, and
is embarrassing its members by repeating such things. We wish it would
follow the example of the airlines and reject the scheme, and Guy
Herbert, NO2ID's General Secretary has written to the chief executive of
ABTA to say so. If you are involved in the travel industry and you
agree, please mention it to your ABTA rep. If you have a friend or
relation who is a travel agent, or you are a regular customer, please
let them know what is being said in their name and why it is wrong. If
you see the story repeated in a magazine or newspaper, then please write
to the editor politely pointing out that it is misleading.
The Home Office is trying to con tens of thousands of holidaymakers and
to use the travel industry to do its dirty work. We must not let that
happen.
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