Travel

Boris Johnson is under huge pressure from senior ministers to sign off a 'big bang' reopening on so-called 'Freedom Day' with travel curbs eased at the same time as restrictions are lifted at home.

There was a 175 per cent increase in Google searches for hotels in the Essex resort in April and May, the biggest surge of 50 seaside towns analysed across the UK.

The inaugural International Portrait Photographer of the Year competition has hit the ground running. The winning images have been revealed and they are truly mesmerising.

The message telling tourists to 'go home' was daubed on the road leading up to the Minack Theatre, a popular outdoor theatre built into the granite cliffside in Porthcurno, Cornwall.

Today, there are hundreds of homestay properties in the UK (and farther afield) at varying prices, often listed on lettings websites. So here's our guide to the home rental market.

Tourists from Cologne and Frankfurt enjoyed the island's pristine beaches with Germans (pictured) not required to quarantine upon their return - while double-jabbed Britons languish at home.

A picture showed one family leaving the airport with their belongings after failing to board their Air New Zealand flight.

STEVE HEAPY: The decisions made now by ministers will have a crucial impact on the future of the British travel sector, which badly needs a shot in the arm after the long months of Covid paralysis.