Holidaymakers could be set for even more choice over where they travel to quarantine-free this summer.
According to a travel expert, 22 more countries could be added to the 'green list' as part of the Government's next travel update. These include Italy, France and the Czech Republic.
Fourteen countries and territories, including Ibiza, Menorca and Mallorca, were moved to the green list last week.
But a number of popular hotspots such as France, Greece, Italy and mainland Spain remain in the amber tier currently.
Travellers returning to the UK from those countries must self-isolate at home for 10 days, making holidays unviable for many people.
However, Robert Boyle, a former British Airways strategy chief, said 22 countries now meet the threshold to be included on the green list.
He told the Telegraph that all of the destinations had infection rates lower than 20 cases per 100,000 of the population and with fewer than 1.5 per cent of all tests taken returning a positive Covid result.
All of the 22 countries listed are currently on the amber list which requires British tourists to self-isolate for 10 days and subsequently pay for at least two Covid-19 tests on days two and eight, reports LancsLive.
Mr Boyle said: “There seems to be nothing in the data the Government says it is using that explains why they are languishing on the amber list at this point.
“I’m sure the answer is politics somehow, but there doesn’t even seem to be any obvious political logic for why two apparently similar countries get classified differently.”
The 22 countries he says should be eligible to join the green list are:
- France
- Italy
- Austria
- Bulgaria
- Hungary
- Romania
- Poland
- Norway
- Vietnam
- Denmark
- Slovakia
- North Macedonia
- Czech Republic
- Estonia
- Finland
- Lebanon
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Moldova
- Taiwan
- Azerbaijan
The next review is expected to take place on July 15 and any changes are then likely to be introduced the week after.
