Omio has joined Online Travel UK (OTUK), the association of the UK’s best-known online travel companies, strengthening the coalition’s representation across the online travel sector.

Omio is the world’s leading multimodal travel platform, making complex journeys across modes, borders and operators easier to navigate and book. The platform connects travellers with more than 3,000 transport providers and offers bookable train, bus, flight and ferry travel across 50 markets. More than 50 million passengers travel with Omio each year.

The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Hospitality and Tourism has published the findings of its inquiry into the UK Government’s proposed overnight visitor levy. 

Online Travel UK (OTUK) contributed written evidence, alongside various businesses and organisations from the UK hospitality and tourism sector.  

 We welcome the APPG’s recognition that significant safeguards must be put in place if the government chooses to proceed with the levy. 

 Inbound tourism is a significant contributor to the economy and supports businesses, jobs and communities across the country. Giving local leaders greater powers to invest in their visitor economies could deliver benefits, but any new levy must be considered against the government’s wider ambition to grow tourism. 

 For OTUK members, the question is not simply whether a levy is introduced, but whether it can be designed to be proportionate, consistent and workable for the businesses expected to administer it - while avoiding unnecessary costs and complexity for consumers. 

As AI becomes a major new route into travel discovery, the industry must consider how to embrace this shift while ensuring consumer choice, value, protection and trust remain at the heart of this change.