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Govt confirms plan to lift quarantine for fully vaccinated arrivals

Move will ease requirements from EU and US through recognition of vaccination schemes around the world

Etihad extends roll-out of digital travel pass

Iata Travel Pass solution will soon be available on seven Etihad routes out of Abu Dhabi

Wizz Air plots swift return to 2019 capacity levels

Budget carrier expecting to operate at 100% of pre-Covid capacity by August, but warns of another potentially problematic winter for airlines

PM confirms traffic light system review this week

The second ‘checkpoint’ review of how the traffic light regime functions is due this week, Number 10 confirmed on Monday (26 July)

Tui to restart Croatia holidays next month

Airline and operator sets out restart plans for coming weeks

Caution urged despite plunge in Covid cases and fresh US travel blow

Ministers have called for calm despite a rapid fall in new Covid cases in the UK, while the US is set to keep its ban on UK visitors

No imminent prospect of US easing travel restrictions – reports

White House official cites concerns over delta variant for caution, according to Reuters

Airlines set out blueprint to get the industry moving

Airlines UK writes to transport secretary Grant Shapps with key demands ahead of second formal review of the UK’s traffic light regime

Finland reopens to fully vaccinated UK arrivals

Travellers must have completed their full vaccination course at least two weeks prior to arrival, and can present their NHS app or a vaccination later as proof of status

Covid 'continuing to wreak havoc' on aviation, says Ryanair

Budget carrier, though, claims ‘huge surge in bookings’ following easing of amber list quarantine rules, despite sinking to deeper first-half loss

Celebrity Equinox becomes line's eighth ship to return to service

More than half of the Celebrity fleet now sailing again, including Celebrity Silhouette, which is operating the line’s UK seacation season

Hopes rise as Covid cases keep falling despite getaway beset by 'chaos'

New cases of Covid-19 in the UK down for a fifth consecutive day, while holidaymakers faced long queues at airports as the summer getaway finally got under way at the weekend

UK 'must open up to vaccinated travellers', says Heathrow chief

Restrictions remain significant barrier to Covid recovery, says John Holland-Kaye, who has called on the UK government to ease testing requirements to avoid falling behind EU rivals

'Cutting through the confusion as the summer getaway starts'

Abta’s Susan Deer reflects on the association’s efforts to help agents with the almost ’insurmountable’ task of keeping up-to-speed with the ever-changing travel landscape

Amber list move 'stimulating demand for Spain and Greece'

Quarantine exemption ’making a difference’ but summer 2021 bookings remain low, agents tell TTG

Leisure agents dispute media claims of late summer rush

Nervous consumers mean surge in late summer bookings not materialising, despite reports of a booking frenzy in the national press

School holiday rush under way to avoid traffic light changes

Consumers dash off in two-week ’window’ before next traffic light update while the UK and France are reportedly in talks over a ’wallet’-style Covid travel app

Video: Agent Matters returns for National Travel Agent Day special – on-demand now

Join Claire Moore, Jackie Steadman and Tony Mann for a candid take on the key issues affecting agents as the Covid crisis continues

'The Olympics should have been an opportunity to relaunch Japan'

’Speak to anyone who was at the 2002 FIFA World Cup or the 2019 Rugby World Cup and they will tell you how good it was – not because of the event, but because of Japan’

Willie Walsh: Cost of Covid testing in the UK 'extortionate'

’Too many governments are falling short on easily accessible, affordable testing, appropriate to the level of risk,’ says Iata director general Walsh

Shipping chief urges govt not to leave cruise 'high and dry'

’The cruise industry has done everything asked of it over the past 16 months – international cruising should be allowed to resume alongside wider international travel’

International cruise ban could be lifted next week, says Saga chief

Nick Stace has told the BBC he expects the Foreign Office advice banning international cruises to be lifted by the end of the month

International travel 'still largely on hold' – UNWTO

2021 tourist arrivals during the first five months of the year down 85% on 2019 levels according to new data from the organisation

Annual summer getaway under way amid air rage fears

The summer break begins this weekend following the easing of amber list quarantine rules, but there are worries about tensions arising from Covid-era travel rules