Holiday firms have urged Transport Secretary Grant Shapps to open up travel to more destinations when restrictions are reviewed next week.
rade association Abta wants more locations added to the green list, testing requirements eased, and tailored financial support for the industry.
It also questioned the recent decisions to remove the quarantine exemption for fully-vaccinated travellers returning from France, and to put Spain’s Balearic Islands on the amber list.
The Government is failing to provide the predictability and stability requiredLuke Petherbridge, Abta
Since May, quarantine and testing requirements have been determined by whether a person is entering the UK from a green, amber or red list location.
The next major update on which country is on which list will take place around August 4.
But the Department for Transport has committed to holding several “formal reviews” of the rules for each list, with the next due “no later than July 31”.
People returning from a green destination are not required to self-isolate, but only a handful of major European summer hotspots are in that tier.
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