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It is "too early" to know whether summer holidays can go ahead, the health secretary has said. Matt Hancock said there was still "a lot of uncertainty" but ministers were doing everything possible to make sure people could have a holiday this year. He told the BBC he had booked his own summer break in Cornwall "months ago".more

A maximum 10-year jail term for lying about recent travel history has been defended by the government.more

French tourists weary of their strict national lockdown are flocking over the border to Madrid, where bars and restaurants are open and people can stay outdoors until 10pm, even as COVID-19 batters Europe in a virulent third wave.more

Boris Johnson has warned the public against pinning their hopes on a summer holiday, even in the UK, until the government announces its plans for lifting lockdown.more

British people should not book a holiday domestically or abroad until more is known about the success of Britain's COVID-19 vaccination programme, transport minister Grant Shapps said on Wednesday.more

Travel company Tui has said it expects to run 80% of its normal capacity for this summer, with 2.8 million customers already booked for its holidays.more

In Scotland, the obligation to undergo a 10-day quarantine in a hotel will apply to all arrivals from abroad, not only from "red list" countries, as in England, announced the Scottish Transport Minister Michael Matheson yesterday.more

Vaccinated Americans are booking hotels in Sicily for spring and summer, the tourism industry said. Local hoteliers emphasize: "US tourists will finally come back to us."more

A maximum 10-year jail term for lying about recent travel history has been defended by the government. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said the British public "would expect pretty strong action" and the maximum sentence reflects the seriousness of the crime.more

Further travel disruption from snow and ice has hit the UK as the temperature plummeted to its lowest in a decade. A temperature of -16.7C was recorded in Altnaharra in the Scottish Highlands on Tuesday morning - the lowest reading in the UK since December 2010.more

UK and Irish residents returning from 33 "red list" countries will have to pay £1,750 to quarantine in hotels for 10 days, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has told MPs.more

All travellers entering the UK will be required to take two coronavirus tests while quarantining in an attempt to prevent variants entering the country.more

Police have warned people against travel in parts of the UK as heavy snow and ice are set to continue through the week amid a bitterly cold snap brought on by Storm Darcy.more

Passengers of the Polish carrier PKP Intercity increasingly have access to WiFi - the company said. Last year, wireless Internet appeared in a total of 130 cars.more

Police warned people not to travel as heavy snow and ice brought disruption to parts of the UK, closing coronavirus vaccination centres and schools. more

The government has ruled out plans to issue so-called "vaccine passports" to enable people who have had the jab against coronavirus to travel abroad. The Greek prime minister has said he would welcome British holidaymakers if they could prove they have been vaccinated.more

Following the pandemic of forced detention and home office work, increased interest in traveling seems more than likely. However, not necessarily in the form of holidays. It is predicted that one of the dominant trends in tourism will be workation, i.e. work combined with holidays.more

Hungarian airline Wizz Air will provide over 140 routes from 10 Polish airports in the winter season 2021/2022, the carrier said. Travelers will be able to fly incl. from Gdańsk to Larnaca, from Kraków to Milan, or from Warsaw to Marrakesh and Barcelona.more

Due to the pandemic and new variants of the coronavirus, more European countries limit travel. France has closed itself on newcomers from outside the EU, Belgium has banned tourist travel until the end of March, and the UK will introduce mandatory hotel quarantine for its citizens returning from the most epidemically dangerous countries.more

The UK is said to have begun work on the creation of a 'vaccine passport' which will reportedly allow sun-starved Brits back to sunny beaches abroad.more

Liverpool’s Champions League clash with RB Leipzig has been thrown into chaos with the Premier League champions banned from entering Germany due to coronavirus restrictions.more

Thousands of hotel rooms are being block-booked by the government hours after it confirmed quarantine rules related to Covid variant hotspots will begin on 15 February.more

The British government's announcement of directing passengers from high-risk countries to a mandatory 10-day quarantine in hotels is delaying. Details of the program are not to be presented until next week.more

Foreign visitors traveling to Sweden will need to show they have tested negative for COVID-19 within the last 48 hours, the government said on Wednesday.more

The airport in Wrocław carries out quick anti-agent tests for passengers returning to Poland from non Schengen area in front of border control posts, i.e. before crossing the state border. A negative test result allows you to be released from a 10-day quarantine. The validity of these studies is questioned by the Ministry of Health.more