Will you splurge or save on your green list holiday?
It’s finally here: the restart of overseas holidays. After a long lockdown, and a lengthy ban on foreign breaks, May 17 tempts with a handful of green-list options.
British holidaymakers who’ve squirrelled away savings may be planning a blow-out trip to the first available destination. Indeed, in our snap poll of 500 Telegraph readers, some 72 per cent said they would splurge on travel this year.
Next week should offer up quarantine-free trips to Gibraltar, Portugal and Iceland (for the fully vaccinated). In the coming months, Caribbean Islands and perhaps even the US could be added into the mix.
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France moves closer to introduction of vaccine passports
France s parliament on Wednesday backed President Emmanuel Macron s plan to introduce a Covid health pass , after deputies pushed back against the move arguing it was discriminatory for those not yet vaccinated.
Macron wants the pass to help speed up the lifting of coronavirus restrictions as his Covid vaccination programme gathers pace.
It will be
used to travel outside France for people showing proof of coronavirus vaccination, a recent negative test or recovery from a Covid-19 infection.
The health pass, which will take a digital or paper form, is to let people attend sporting events and other large gatherings, but would not be used to enter restaurants, cinemas or stores.
Covid test comparison website to end confusion for holidaymakers
Grant Shapps will unveil official website within days to provide information on the cheapest, quickest and most efficient coronavirus tests
12 May 2021 • 9:00pm
The new website is designed to drive down the cost of tests for holidaymakers
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A GoCompare-style website for travel testing is to be launched by the Government to end the chaos for holidaymakers – as a test provider exposed by The Telegraph was ditched from the official list.
Grant Shapps, the Transport Secretary, is set to unveil the new gov.uk website within days to provide holidaymakers with clear information on the cheapest, quickest and most efficient Covid test companies.
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