Què diu ETOA sobre les noves regles de viatges del Regne Unit i la Global Travel Taskforce

Arrivals traveling from red list countries should book a quarantine package before departure, and arrivals from amber and green countries will be required to book test packages before traveling from one of the government’s approved list of providers.

Testing remains an essential part of protecting public health as restrictions begin to ease – with all arrivals who are not exempt required to book a pre-departure, day 2 and day 8 test before traveling. Testing post-arrival remains an important tool in our wider measures to manage the risk of imported cases – allowing us to monitor positive tests and ensure people isolate, as well as identify and genomically sequence variants of concern.

The report, produced by the Global Travel Taskforce, includes the removal of the permission to travel form – meaning passengers would no longer need to prove they have a valid reason to leave the country.

The UK Government will also work with the travel industry and private testing providers ahead of international travel reopening, to see how we can further reduce the cost of travel for the British public, while ensuring travel is as safe as possible. This could include cheaper tests being used when holidaymakers return home, as well as whether the government would be able to provide pre-departure tests.

It is too early to predict which countries will be on which list over the summer, and the government continues to consider a range of factors to inform the restrictions placed on them, said Shapps. They will set out by early May which countries will fall into which category, as well as confirming whether international travel can resume from May 17, 2021.