Danny Callaghan, chief executive of the association, said: "I would like to understand why, if I were to test positive for the Omicron variant today, I am able to quarantine at home, but a person arriving from a red list country is not trusted to do the same.
"Image if the government went around collecting Omicron-positive people from their homes, dragging them off to some shabby hotel for 10 days, and then charging over two thousand pounds for the privilege – there’d be uproar. Yet returning Brits are expected to do just that."
He called on the government to take a "sensible approach", and allow people to quarantine at home after returning from a red-listed country.
