Boris Johnson due to announce end of Covid restrictions in England while another 12 countries are reportedly ’on course’ to join the Westminster government’s travel green list
Paul Hackett, the new chair of the Irish Travel Agents Association, gives TTG a candid take on the Irish travel industry’s Covid trials and tribulations
The delay relaxing the UK’s Covid restrictions put international travel on the backburner and spells good news for domestic tourism, but also brings its problems. Gary Noakes reports
Testing set to be the biggest barrier to travel this summer, agents tell TTG, after government confirms plans to lift quarantine for fully vaccinated amber list arrivals from 19 July
BA customers affected by any change in their destination’s traffic light status from amber to red while in-destination will be able to change their flight home for free
FCDO no longer advising against all but essential travel to various amber list destinations ’based on the current assessment of Covid-19 risks’ – including Spain, Greece and France
SPAA and Barrhead Travel criticise Holyrood for failure to set out plans to ease quarantine for fully vaccinated amber list arrivals after UK government concession
Transport secretary Grant Shapps’ Commons statement on easing quarantine for fully vaccinated amber list arrivals leads the national travel headlines on Thursday (8 July)
