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.
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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
Ireland extends the requirement to have a negative coronavirus test result on entry until March 5, the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs service "Pole abroad" informed today.more
Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he is "optimistic" people will be able to have summer holidays this year - but it depends on certain things going well.more
The EU on Monday agreed to establish the color “dark red” to its traffic light system, which shows the Covid-19 risk levels across its regions, as an additional measure to discourage all but essential travel within and to its member states.more
While some countries and companies see electronic "vaccine passports" as the key to unlocking international travel and tourism, not everyone is thrilled with such solutions. The idea provokes resistance from the institution and raises ethical controversy.more
'Enigma was broken at Bletchley Park because of the Polish decision in 1939 to share all they knew. That led to a radical transformation of British signals intelligence', writes Tony Cormer - former in-house historian of GCHQ.more
