By MPs criticise lack of detail on foreign holidays and demand more by end of month.
Ministers have been urged to list foreign travel details by May 1.
The warning comes in a critical analysis of the government’s Global Travel Task Force report by the cross-party transport committee.
It argues that the report is a “missed opportunity” for the government to capitalise on the UK’s world-leading ‘vaccine dividend’.
The GTTF “sets out a framework without the detail required to restart international travel”.
The Global Travel Task Force recommendations are attacked by the transport committee as being “vague and costly” with MPs saying: “Where detail is provided, the costs may be disproportionate to the risk and add £500 on to the cost of a family of four travelling to the safest parts of the globe where the vaccine roll-out is comparable to the UK.
“This distinct lack of clarity does not offer confidence to industry or consumers to plan, invest or recover from the coronavirus pandemic. It leaves the planned safe restart of international travel on May 17 in jeopardy.”
Confirmed plans for a traffic light system, with countries divided between “green”, “amber” and “red” destinations.
Under the proposals there would be different travel restrictions applied to each category of country, which would be determined depending on their perceived COVID risk.
Transport committee chair Huw Merriman MP said: “The aviation and travel sectors were crying out for a functional report, setting out clear rules and offering certainty. This is not it.
“Where the industry craved certainty, the government has failed to provide it. For UK citizens seeking to travel to the parts of the globe where the vaccine has been delivered as rapidly as the UK, the cost to families from testing could be greater than the cost of the flights.
“This is a missed opportunity for the government to capitalise on the UK’s world-leading ‘vaccine dividend’.
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