While outbound leisure travel from the UK remains banned, the report of the government’s Global Travel Taskforce – which was tasked with establishing how international travel can be restarted "safely and robustly" – has given hope of travel resuming this summer.
Although the taskforce’s recommendations are yet to come into effect, they lay out a framework for international travel to resume over the coming months under a traffic light system – with some travel potentially being permitted from 17 May, the "at the very earliest" date set by the government.
A number of destinations have already indicated they will be ready to welcome British visitors this summer, albeit with a number of variables still yet to be determined – chiefly, the course of the third wave of Covid infection currently spreading across mainland Europe.
Other factors will include testing and quarantine rules, any vaccination certificate requirements, the scope of the EU’s digital green pass travel certification scheme, the progress of other countries’ vaccination programmes, and various other Covid provisions and mitigations to ensure travel is as safe as it can be.
So what have destinations said so far? What are their plans for the summer? What conditions are they placing on arrivals? And when might British holidaymakers be able to get away to warmer, sunnier climes? Here are the key developments so far.
Note: This guide will be updated periodically. It was last updated at 2.00pm on Tuesday 13 April (addition of Israel).
