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Features

COMMENT: Will things change?

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has sunk, rather like his grandiose Thames Estuary Airport scheme.


Associations

UK scraps mandatory pre-departure Covid-19 tests to enter England

Boris Johnson has confirmed that pre-departure travel Covid-19 tests to enter England from overseas will be scrapped from 7 January


Air

UK reinitiates pre-departure Covid-19 testing

All UK arrivals must once again show proof of a negative PCR or lateral flow test before they will be permitted entry and the test must be taken no earlier than 48 hours before departure


Europe

UK adds ten countries to red list

England has added ten southern African countries to their red list and will require all arrivals to do a day 2 PCR test and self-isolate until they have got a negative result


Europe

UK could scrap hotel quarantine for some travellers

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will open up more countries for hotel quarantine-free travel later this week and the UK’s ‘red list’ of destinations would be slashed to nine from 54


Europe

No vaccine passports: UK PM to set out Covid-19 plan for winter

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will this week set out his plans to manage the Covid-19 pandemic in the winter months, announcing a decision to scrap the introduction of vaccine passports


Europe

Urgent need to get travel industry moving again, says Boris Johnson

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he wants to get travel industry moving again with user-friendly system of rules for trips abroad


Features

Johnson announces plan for reopening in England from 19 July

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that people in England will no longer be legally required to wear a face-covering and that all Covid-19 social distancing rules will be repealed on July 19th.


Europe

UK PM confirms reopening of restaurants but foreign travel still on hold

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has confirmed pubs and restaurants could reopen to serve outdoors in a week’s time, as Covid restrictions are lifted


Associations

Delaying return of international travel until May could be fatal blow for UK’s ailing travel sector

Delaying the return of international travel until at least mid-May could mean the tourism sector simply will not survive, says WTTC


Europe

UK bans international travel until 17 May

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced a ban on non-essential international travel from and to the country till at least 17 May


Europe

UK travel corridor system to be suspended from 18 Jan

British prime minister, Boris Johnson, has announced the UK will close all travel corridors to protect against the risk of as yet unidentified new Covid-19 strains


Europe

Brits’ Christmas travel halted as new coronavirus ‘out of control’ in the UK

Several countries have isolated the United Kingdom banning arrivals from the UK.


Global

Travel ban bites: Countries that have blocked travel from UK due to new Covid strain

Ireland, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Belgium are all halting flights after UK reported a more-infectious and ‘out of control’ coronavirus variant this weekend


Air

UK reduces quarantine policy to five days for holiday travel during Christmas

Travellers arriving in the UK now will be able to reduce their self-isolation period from 14 to five days starting next month if they test negative for the coronavirus


Aruba

France, the Netherlands, Monaco, Malta, Turks & Caicos and Aruba removed from UK’s safe travel list

Transport secretary Grant Shapps has announced six more countries that have been added to the UK’s travel quarantine list.


Associations

WTTC calls for leadership from PM Boris Johnson and strong international coordination to save travel sector

World Travel & Tourism Council has urgently called on the UK government for strong leadership and unprecedented international collaboration, to save the struggling travel and tourism sector and recover the millions of jobs already affected


Eturbo News

British Prime Minister on Convid-19

“It will soon be the time when we will quarantine people coming into the country by air.” The words of Boris Johnson Prime Minster speaking to the nation last night, Business Travel News London reports.