What do the new travel rules mean for holidays?
Portugal travel stock  The rules for travellers returning from amber list locations are changing. The amber list features all destinations not on the low-risk green list, or high-risk red list. including those on clinical trials  another step to fully reopening international travel. Children under 18 will not need to self-isolate.  Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP (@grantshapps) July 8, 2021  That means it covers the vast majority of destinations, including mainland Spain, France, Italy and Portugal. They must take a pre-departure coronavirus test, two post-arrival PCR tests, and quarantine at home for 10 days. From July 19, UK residents returning to England will no longer have to self-isolate if they have received both doses of a coronavirus vaccine from the NHS. Returning travellers will still be required to take a pre-departure test, but only one post-arrival test.  But children are not being vaccinated in the UK. Children returning from amber locations will also be exempt from the quarantine requirement.  The Government advises people to avoid non-essential travel to amber locations. The guidance will be scrapped on July 19. He told the Commons that England must use the advantages of its vaccine rollout to restore many of the freedoms that have been necessarily lost over recent months. Firms welcomed the announcement but warned that remaining testing requirements are too restrictive. Green Party MP Caroline Lucas, vice-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Coronavirus, said dropping quarantine without urgent measures, such as reducing queues at airports and testing travellers for new variants, risks leaving the UK dangerously exposed. The devolved administrations set their own rules in terms of the requirements for arrivals from overseas.