Transport secretary Grant Shapps confirmed the widely expected loosening of rules for fully jabbed inbound passengers on Wednesday (28 July) through social media platform Twitter.
Joss Croft, chief executive of UKinbound, said: “Today’s announcement that quarantine will be removed for vaccinated US and EU visitors to England is a fantastic step forward that will allow the £28 billion inbound tourism sector, which supports over 500,000 jobs across the UK, to finally restart.