LONDON, May 13 (Reuters) - Britons booking a summer holiday
are taking a chance on the direction of the coronavirus
outbreak, transport minister Grant Shapps said on Wednesday.
European travel company TUI said on Wednesday there would
still be a summer holiday season this year and it was ready to
resume providing holidays. Britain's foreign office is currently
advising against all travel abroad.
"Right now you can’t travel abroad. If you are booking it
then you are clearly, by the very nature, taking a chance on
where the direction of this virus goes and therefore where the
travel advice is in the future," Shapps told BBC TV when asked
if people should book summer holidays.
"That is not something people would want to take lightly of
course."
(Reporting by Alistair Smout and Kylie MacLellan, editing by
Elizabeth Piper)