The news about security getting beefed up isn’t new anymore to UK residents and travellers to UK. It has become routine and everybody seems to accept the fact that travellers coming in to the country or leaving have to go through the arduous lengthy process of security checks.

The British government in its ditch effort has decided to get more details about every traveller to UK. They are planning on obtaining 53 pieces of information on every tourist entering and leaving the country. Airlines and ships are expected to provide basic details like name, sex, date of birth, nationality, type of travel document, issuing state, date of reservation, passenger address, contact numbers of tourists and agents along with the hotels they plan on residing.

This whole exercise of comprehensive checks is expected to cost the government a whopping £1.2b. The cost of security checks may be levied on airlines and carriers which may in turn charge the traveller.

via IR News Agency