While the updates were broadly welcomed by most news outlets, there was extensive coverage of the decidedly more downbeat industry reaction to the latest changes, with several travel leaders calling for a less cautious approach from government in the light of the vaccine programme success.
There was also assessment of the impact of scrapping France’s "amber plus" status and introducing new pre-departure testing "advice" for Spain, and what this will mean for consumer confidence.
There are all the latest travel headlines making the national press on Thursday (5 August).
New measures ‘further dent confidence in travel’
