Travel Bosses Urge UK To Add Top European Holiday Destinations to Green List

Travel Bosses Urge UK To Add Top European Holiday Destinations to Green List
People enjoy the sea on a beach of the small island of Chrysi, south of Crete, on July 26, 2020. Aris Messinis/AFP via Getty Images
Alexander Zhang
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Travel industry leaders have complained the UK government’s plan to reopen international travel in the wake of the COVID-19 lockdown is “overly cautious,” and have called for the top European holiday destinations to be added to the quarantine-free “green list.”

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps announced on Friday that Britain will allow international travel to resume from May 17, but just 12 countries and territories made the so-called “green list,” which include Portugal, Israel, New Zealand, Australia, and the tiny Faroe Islands.