Eight countries will be removed from the red list tomorrow - including several holiday hotspots.
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps announced a major relaxing of international travel rules for people departing from England.
Countries will be placed on a single red list and previous green and amber ranked nations will be classed as the 'rest of the world'.
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The rules for red list countries, where the coronavirus case rate is high, remain the same, meaning passengers returning from these nations must quarantine for 10 full days on their return.
The change merges the amber and green list countries into a "rest of the world" area, stripping back previous travel rules.
Passengers returning from non-red list locations do not have to quarantine.
From the end of October, fully vaccinated travellers returning from non-red list countries will be able to replace the day two PCR tests with cheaper lateral flow tests and no longer need to take pre-departure tests.
The rules remain the same, but some countries have been removed due to an improving coronavirus picture.
A total of eight destinations will be removed from red list - Turkey, Pakistan, the Maldives, Egypt, Sri Lanka, Oman, Bangladesh and Kenya - from 4am on September 22.
Travellers planning to take advantage of the new policy must be fully vaccinated with two doses from a manufacturer recognised by the Government and from a recognised nation.
The list of recognised nations has been expanded by 17 countries, and includes those using jabs authorised by the European Medicines Agency, the United States' Food and Drug Administration, and from the Swiss vaccination programme.
Airlines have welcomed the scrapping of the amber travel list but urged the Government to go further by eliminating testing for vaccinated travellers.
EasyJet chief executive Johan Lundgren said the UK is still lagging behind other European countries which have not required any testing for vaccinated travellers since July 1.
