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Portugal will allow tourist arrivals from most European countries on Monday, Lisbon's interior ministry said today.more

Contrary to earlier announcements by the government - from today, i.e. Saturday, May 15, the 10-day quarantine after arrival to the Netherlands from countries with an increased risk of coronavirus infection, including Poland, will not apply. The quarantine regulations have yet to be approved by the Dutch Senate.more

Heathrow Airport is considering contingency plans to divert aircraft to other UK airports or EU hubs if queues at the border become too long.more

The Spanish authorities have started work on launching a vaccine passport, on the basis of which people vaccinated against Covid-19 could move freely during the pandemic between selected countries of the world, said Maria Reyes Maroto, responsible for the department of industry, trade and tourism.more

From Sunday, in Italy, there will be no requirement of a 5-day quarantine for people coming from other European Union countries, the Schengen area, as well as from Great Britain and Israel. The ordinance in this matter was signed on Friday by Health Minister Roberto Speranza.more

After more than two months of break, air traffic at the Zielona Góra-Babimost airport will be restored on Tuesday, informed the "Polish Airports" State Enterprise that manages the airport.more

After the government lifted the recommendation to refrain from holiday travel in connection with Covid-19, residents of the Netherlands are booking summer trips en masse, including foreign ones. Some travel portals have even recorded a fivefold increase in the number of trips sold.more

Today Greece is inaugurating the tourist season. Most beaches will open in Italy this weekend. Water parks will start operating again in Portugal. Tests are still needed to travel in Europe, but many countries, incl. Croatia, Greece, Cyprus and Montenegro do not require them from vaccinated tourists.more

From tomorrow, on May 15, the 50 percent passenger limit will cease to apply and it will be possible to buy tickets for all seats - reminds the Polish railway operator, PKP Intercity. However, the compulsory seat reservation is maintained.more

Online travel agent On The Beach has stopped selling all holidays for this summer due to Covid uncertainty.more

England’s NHS app will be available to use as a vaccine passport from Monday, the government has said - but only for those who have had both doses of the jab.more

Greece is disappointed that it has been designated an ‘amber’ destination by Britain, with hoteliers reporting that cancellations are “pouring in” from British tourists. more

People in Scotland will be able to travel to some foreign destinations without the need to quarantine on their return, the BBC understands. It will be part of a traffic lights system, similar to that in England, and will come into effect on 24 May.more

LOT Polish Airlines and the Greek Ministry of Tourism have signed an agreement to promote Greece in Poland. As it was added, LOT will be serving as many as 14 Greek airports this summer.more

With the progress of the vaccination campaign against Covid-19 and the decline in epidemic rates, more European countries are loosening sanitary restrictions.more

Italy plans to lift quarantine restrictions for travellers arriving from European countries, Britain and Israel as early as mid-May in a bid to revive the tourism industry, Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said on Saturday.more

New Shepard rocket-and-capsule combo aims to fly six passengers 62 miles above Earth into space.more

Hungarian Wizz Air announced on Friday about 200 routes from 10 Polish airports in the flight schedule for the summer season 2022. from Warsaw to the island of Zakynthos, Gdańsk to Larnaca, Katowice to Corfu, and from Karków to Nice.more

"If Poland is not on your list of places to visit, after seeing these amazing photos, it will be" - argues the British Daily Mail, publishing a series of photographs by Karol Nienartowicz on its website.more

The Electric Highway, tge UK’s longest-standing fast-charging initiative, has opened its largest high power charging site at a Moto pitstop, Rugby Services, at Junction 1 of the M6. The new facility includes 12 ultra-rapid chargers from Tritium, able to charge supported vehicles at 350kW.more

Hungarian Wizz Air announced the launch of new routes from Poland; it concerns connections from Lublin to Burgas, and from Poznań and Warsaw to Lviv and from Warsaw to Malaga. New directions will start in June this year.more

Portugal, Gibraltar and Israel are among 12 countries added to a green list of travel destinations from 17 May for people in England, the transport secretary has said. Anyone returning from those countries - deemed safest under a new traffic light system - will not have to quarantine. Covid tests will be required before and after travel.more

Ryanair has teamed up with clinical diagnostic solutions firm Randox to deliver PCR tests for passengers at a reduced cost. Holidaymakers jetting off from May 17 will be required to take pre-and post-departure tests at their own expense, regardless of which colour their destination is categorised as under the "traffic light" system.more

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps will hold a Downing Street press conference at 5pm today. It comes as the government is expected to announce its green list of holiday destinations people from England will be able to visit without having to quarantine.more

More than half of Spain's 17 autonomous communities have announced that they will ease the sanitary restrictions that have been in force since 25 October due to the epidemic threat that ends on Saturday night. Meanwhile, the country is experiencing a significant increase in the number of new coronavirus infections.more