Read more: Will the City of Love ever be the same again? The country’s tourist board is also likely to be deeply disappointed. “I’ve already lost a friend in the UK aged 42, so even if I’m going to lose out this summer, I just don’t think we should open to tourists.”. Caroline Leboucher, CEO at Atout France, was responding to news reported in the Telegraph that France was likely to be in the first tranche of bilateral travel deals to be announced this weekend.

But the case rate for the country rose to 51.3 virus cases per 100,000 people in the last 14 days – the UK considers imposing quarantine on travellers when a country’s infection rate exceeds 20 cases per 100,00, over seven days. The pandemic is ever-changing and it would not be unimaginable to learn Italy, or indeed any of the countries mentioned, had stepped away from UK air bridge negotiations. He told the Telegraph: “Algarve and Madeira are two places that Covid-19 is with a low expression, so I could not believe [reports of Portugal's possible exclusion].”. The measure will be in place from today until July 12 and it will then be reviewed, according to a government document. “The same happened to other Portuguese emigrés in at least one other London airport, Stanstead”, other sources have revealed. The Foreign Office still warns against all but essential travel (something which is “under constant review”), and the above lists have been revealed to the Telegraph via a Government source, not yet formally announced. @ECACceac @Transport_EU @A4Europe @IATA @CANSOEurope @ACI_EUROPE @EBAAorg @eraaorg #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/DkZu2Occpu. Emy Anagnostopoulou, director of the Greek National Tourism Organisation, said: The UK market is one of the most important markets for Greek tourism and has been for decades. Portugal’s battle to get an ‘air bridge’ with UK – saving British holidaymakers from spending 14 days in quarantine when they return home – seems close to being won. Portugal’s battle to get an ‘air bridge’ with UK – saving British holidaymakers from spending 14 days in quarantine when they return home – seems close to being won. Portugal in talks with UK ahead of 'air bridge' list review The long-awaited release of the government's list of quarantine-exempt countries has sparked a huge amount of … The country is Britain’s oldest ally (634 years and counting) and is heavily reliant on free spending UK sunseekers. With so many efforts ongoing to reverse the catastrophic British decision to impose quarantine on anyone flying into UK from Portugal, Lusa news agency is reporting that several Portuguese emigrés have returned to England from holiday in their home territories, and been ‘waived through’ London airports, with no checks or advice whatsoever. A seven-day rate of 20 is the threshold above which the UK Government considers triggering quarantine conditions. Francisco Calheiros, president of the Portuguese Tourism Confederation, pointed out that popular holiday hotspots like the Algarve have very low cases of coronavirus.