Last year, the government maintained direct travel corridors with the likes of Spain’s Balearic and Canary Islands, and Portugal’s Azores and Madeira archipelagos, to allow quarantine-free leisure travel to these destinations to continue while travel to both the Spanish and Portuguese mainland incurred a self-isolation requirement upon return.
The government has since announced a formal traffic light regime to govern international travel, which will come into effect when international travel is permitted; 17 May remains the "at the very earliest" date for any such resumption.
