Fully-vaccinated travellers from France will be allowed to enter England without the need to quarantine, scrapping an extra rule imposed last month.
The UK government said the change to France's status from 8 August would help simplify its travel rules, and would also allow quarantine-free travel from more places, in a boost for the beleaguered travel industry.
The UK has one of the fastest vaccination programmes in the world but the government has so far stopped airlines and travel companies from making a full recovery with a variety of rules and last-minute changes, which have scared off holidaymakers.
It operates a "traffic light" system for international travel, with low-risk countries rated green for quarantine-free travel, medium risk