After a long wait for tourists and the tourism industry, the UK is about to climb Portugal on its travel list, while excluding Croatia and Austria.
Portugal will be a quarantine-free destination for the British from 4am on Saturday, the government said. The southern European country was the only addition to its safe corridors after Thursday’s most recent review.
The following countries will no longer get advantages from brokers with Britain due to rising infection rates with Covid:
This means that the British can now travel to Portugal without quarantine upon their return. Similarly, the Portuguese can make a stopover in England without restrictions. That is once the measures have come into force.
Meanwhile, “If you arrive in England from Portugal before four o’clock in the morning on 22 August, you will have to isolate yourself,” he says.
“Five months after the UK government warned of a return to Portugal, tourists can return and deserve not to be quarantined when they return,” says The Independent.
“This means that agencies can re-sell holidays in the Algarve, Lisbon, Madeira and the Azores.
Meanwhile, travelers returning or arriving from Croatia or Austria since Saturday face strict 14-day isolation. Once again, travelers will be in chaos, with only 36 hours for those who need to return home before this deadline.
“Anyone returning to the UK from Trinidad and Tobago will have to be quarantined for 14 days after cases on the Caribbean islands more than doubled in a week,” Sky News reports.
This resolution will also involve converting Saturday’s FCO travel recommendation, which will have an effect on travel insurance to those destinations. In the case of Portugal, favorably. For Croatia, Austria and others, there will be a precaution that will oppose all non-essential travel.
Shapps warned of the option of additional delays.
“As in all air transport countries, things can be replaced quickly,” he tweeted. “Travel only if you’re happy with an unforeseen 14-day quarantine if (I’m talking about experience!)”.
The British transport secretary had to isolate himself on his return from Spain, having suddenly been removed from the list of runners last month.
The UK lane list since July allows others to take a non-quarantine holiday in dozens of destinations.
These are removed and added based on your Covid infection point. Shapps says the threshold is 20 instances per 100,000 people registered in the last seven days.
“The average number of cases in Croatia rose to 29.5 cases, consisting of another 100,000 people in the following week, compared to 13.54, consistent with 100,000 a week ago,” Sky News reports. “Austria’s rate almost doubled last week.”
The increase in new levels of infection in many countries in Europe and beyond has already been noted that Spain was removed from the list on 27 July. Then Luxembourg on 31 July.
Restrictions for Belgium, Andorra and the Bahamas were reinstated on August 9. All travellers from France, the Netherlands, Malta, Monaco, the Turks and Caicos Islands and Aruba have been quarantined since 15 August.
According to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, trends in Covid infection for more than 15 weeks include:
Is an eBook an end-of-summer stay in Portugal right away?
Yes, says Rory Boland, editor-in-chief of customer rights magazine Which? Trip.
But he advises in a tweet:
1) Make sure you can quarantine and go back in case of unpredictable changes.
2) Book a package, stay with a supplier and purchase insurance
Also comply with Covid’s local protection rules. Masks are mandatory on public transport and supermarkets and many other crowded indoor spaces. See those and other social estrangement measures. Visit the portugal website.
The government label ‘Clean – Safe’, established through Tourism of Portugal, is there to give tourists more confidence in hotels and other accommodations as in other tourist services.
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I have 3 decades of experience as a journalist, foreign correspondent and travel writer-photographer. Working for print, virtual and radio media on 4 continents, I am also an experienced hotel journalist and writer of travel guides and cultural histories in Australia, France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and Borneo. Deep on the road between my Parisian and Australian bases, I write for Forbes with a globetrotting attitude and a topicality in travel, culture, hospitality, art and architecture. My hobby is to capture the unique people, situations and occasions I encounter along the way, whether in words and images. I have a bachelor’s degree in professional writing from the University of Canberra, a master’s degree in European journalism from Robert Schuman University in Strasbourg and a member of the Society of Travel Writers of the United States. Love for my wild local island of Tasmania fuels my commitment to sustainable travel and conservation.