Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said it is “too soon” for hopeful travellers to start booking holidays as it is currently "illegal" to go on holiday in the UK or abroad.
“First of all, I should say, people shouldn’t be booking holidays right now – not domestically or internationally,” he told the BBC's Radio 4 Today programme.
“The Prime Minister will say more about the route to unlocking this country, starting when he speaks about it on February 22.
“But we don’t know yet whether that will include information on things like holidays, simply because we don’t know where we’ll be up to in terms of the decline in cases, deaths, the vaccination.
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“And not just the vaccination programme here, but the vaccination programme internationally, because people will be going outside of our borders. So it’s too soon."
He said on the "shrinking chance" that someone listening to his interview would be considering booking a holiday, "bearing in mind you cannot legally do that at the moment", he added: "Please do not go ahead and book holidays for something that at this stage is illegal at home or abroad."
Mr Shapps said it's too early to give information about summer but "the best advice is do nothing at this stage."
It comes as Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, warned that travellers who try to conceal journeys to high-risk countries could face jail sentences of up to 10 years.
Matt Hancock announced a requirement for UK residents returning to England from 33 “red list” countries to pay £1,750 to quarantine for 10 days in government-designated hotels.
The Health Secretary said those caught lying about their movements could be fined £10,000 or be jailed for 10 years.
It comes amid continuing concerns over home-grown coronavirus strains as scientists advising the government added one detected in Bristol to its “variant of concern” list.
Mass testing has started in Moss Side and other postcode areas in Manchester in a bid to contain a variant of concern.
