Travel green list: Brits can go to Portugal and Israel from 17 May May 8, 2021 Brits will be able to travel to destinations including Portugal and Israel from 17 May, transport secretary Grant Shapps has announced. He said that 12 countries, including the two above and as Gibraltar, would be on the government’s travel “green list”. Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Brunei, and Iceland make up the rest of the list, [...]
Drinking around the world: Take a trip to Lanzarote, wine paradise May 6, 2021 The latest wine region to erupt onto the wine tourism atlas is Lanzarote, with the Canarian island hoping to be among the first destinations to revive European wine tourism. With travel restrictions lifting, a former investment banker and surfing instructor from Guernsey and a former GB Olympic swimming trials finalist from Sunderland want to make [...]
UK could be left behind rest of Europe on travel, Easyjet boss warns May 6, 2021 The boss of Easyjet has warned that the UK could be left behind the rest of Europe if the government approves travel to only a small handful of countries from 17 May. Tomorrow ministers will lay out the initial list of destinations that will be on the UK’s green list for travel from the middle [...]
The Return of Luxury Travel May 4, 2021 | Sponsored After more than a year of global lockdowns which largely paused the travel industry, especially its luxury segment, vaccination programmes’ arrival means that European summer holidays are firmly on the table — despite some countries being yet to settle on their entry requirements. The pandemic has also affected consumer thinking, and that of luxury travel [...]
The age of the staycation: Why you should visit… Guildford May 4, 2021 Welcome to the golden age of the staycation. Last week rail bookings trebled, with the most popular getaway destinations being Margate, Weymouth, Brighton, Inverness, Cambridge, Bournemouth and Guildford. The latter can be reached in little over half an hour from Waterloo. But what is the secret to Guildford’s popularity? The County town of Surrey and [...]
Post-pandemic travel: Flights to Greece, Spain or Italy offer the best bang for your holiday buck April 30, 2021 Which destinations offer the most affordable trip away when it comes to the cost of flying versus the time spent actually in the air? The best short-haul value for money would be a flight to Greece, Spain or Italy, according to hotel booking platform Hoo, which analysed the cost of flying to 15 destinations from [...]
ESTA travel to the USA this summer: How likely? April 30, 2021 | Sponsored Only a few months ago, the thought of going on a holiday this summer seemed like a fever dream. Yet with vaccination rollouts ahead of schedule in the USA, the country has already hinted at relaxing the travel ban currently in place, which also applies to visa-exempt ESTA countries. With UK vaccinations also progressing fluidly, [...]
Spain set to open doors to Brits from June April 28, 2021 Spain will open its doors to British holidaymakers from June after discussions between the two governments on using digital health passes to ensure safe travel. Fernando Valdes Verelst, Spain’s tourism minister, said that it was pushing for Britain’s so-called “vaccine passport” to be “mutually recognised”. His comments came as transport secretary Grant Shapps confirmed that [...]
NHS app to be used as vaccine passport for travel, says Shapps April 28, 2021 Brits will use the existing NHS Covid-19 app to show their vaccine status if they wish to travel abroad, transport secretary Grant Shapps has confirmed this morning. The app will be retooled to function as a vaccine passport, Shapps said, or to show a negative test result. “It will be the NHS app that is [...]
Hong Kong and Singapore to open travel bubble in May April 26, 2021 Hong Kong and Singapore will open a travel bubble allowing quarantine free travel between the two countries from 26 May. The plan was meant to come into effect in November but had to be delayed due to a surge in Covid-19 cases in the former. It will be the second such arrangement to open, following [...]