On Monday (24 January), prime minister Boris Johnson confirmed vaccinated travellers returning to England will no longer have to take a test from 4am on 11 February.
Following an agreement at a cross-UK meeting, Scotland aligned with the move to remove its travel testing regime and said "further work" will be done on a new surveillance system to monitor its border.
Travellers will still need to fill in a passenger locator form and wear face coverings in Scottish airports.
Non-vaccinated individuals will still be required to take a pre-departure test and a PCR test on or before Day 2 of their return. However, the isolation requirement will end and they will no longer have to take a Day 8 test.
Scottish transport secretary Michael Matheson said the measures will "significantly" open up international travel and were agreed on a UK-wide basis.
"The measures will be extremely welcome for the Scottish tourism and aviation sectors, encouraging travel from our airports," he added.
In response, Jacqueline Dobson, president of Barrhead Travel, welcomed the move and claimed fully-vaccinated travellers will be "relieved to say goodbye to these costly tests".
"Travel was the last industry to bear the burden of restrictions so removing the requirement to test after arrival is a vote of confidence for all travel businesses this summer," she added.
"We now want to see the government set-out a long-term recovery strategy and hear how it intends to tackle future variants so that travel need not suffer future economic disruption."
Dobson said holidays for 2022 were "well and truly back on the table" and expected the announcement to prompt more customers to "firm up" their travel arrangements this year.
Meanwhile, Mike Tibbert, president of The Scottish Passenger Agents’ Association (SPAA), echoed Dobson’s calls and described the move as "overdue, but welcome".
"The seemingly endless changes and updates to travel regulation have been immensely disruptive for the whole of Scotland’s travel sector, with a devastating effect on our economy and individual businesses," he added.
"But on this milestone day, what we need is strategic planning for the future. We need reassurance that, if new variants are discovered, we do not return to knee-jerk, draconian measures to shut down international travel."
