Holidays to Turkey could soon be back on the cards, according to one travel expert.
Before the pandemic the Eurasian country had become increasingly popular with British tourists.
In 2019 2.29 million people made the trip from the UK, up from 1.75 million the year before.
Turkey's sandy, sun soaked beaches and historical cities continued to be a big draw during the early part of the pandemic, when there was not a travel ban in place.
Since the autumn Brits have been unable to visit the country due to concerns about its coronavirus rates, variants and how accurate its pandemic data was.
Paul Charles, CEO of the travel firm the PC Agency, has argued that things are looking up for those who want a Turkish break.
The travel expert, who follows trends in the industry and has a strong track record at predicting how the traffic light system could change, suggested it will soon be reclassified as amber.
"It seems like an alternative to the chaos of Europe at the moment," said Mr Charles on his weekly Travel Radio show.
"I know they are meeting the Joint Biosecurity Centre weekly at the moment to go through the data.
"I think they’ve cleaned up the data.
"I think they’ve vaccinated something like 80 to 90% of their tourism employees and workers in hotels and attractions.
"I understand that they also are starting to see infections come down dramatically because they’ve closed borders to India and Pakistan and areas of red concern if you like."
Currently Turkey is recording slightly over 5,000 coronavirus cases a day, compared to roughly five times that number in the UK.
That figure is significantly down from the 60,000 daily infections the country was suffering in April.
Turkey has also rolled out 51 million jabs - enough to vaccinate a third of its population.
As a result, Mr Charles believes Britons could be able to return to the nation in the coming months.
"I think their time is about to come actually," he said.
He suggested that Turkey would be taken from red to amber, rather than straight to red.
At present that would mean a mandatory period in hotel quarantine would be swapped for ten days in self-isolation.
However, politicians are currently in talks over whether or not to allow vaccinated Britons to travel without the need for quarantine.
At the time of writing, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) is advising against "non-essential travel" to Turkey.
UK citizens and residents travelling from Turkey to England face a mandatory period of hotel quarantine.
The government's vaccine proposals would initially only include UK residents with access to the NHS but the plan is to extend it to all EU citizens.
It is also seeking for other European countries to also ease the Covid restrictions on British travellers abroad.
UK authorities are said to be in the process of agreeing a deal which would see EU countries recognise the NHS app in return for allowing the European digital green card.
The app would also show the holder’s Covid status through testing. It would enable them to go into countries that allow quarantine free travel with a negative PCR test, like Spain.
Sajid Javid's appointment as health secretary is believed to have quickened up the process for bringing about quarantine-free travel.
