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The UK's national carrier has announced a new program of safety measures, designed to protect passengers at every step of the journey as they're welcomed back on board.

The country has today made it compulsory for people to wear face masks when outside in the country’s largest cities of Istanbul and Ankara, as well as the northwestern city of Bursa. Cases of COVID-19 reported each day have recently doubled in the cities, following a relaxing of measures which included the resumption of inter-city flights.

The country's government has updated restrictions for international arrivals; anyone entering Austria from a country for which a travel warning is in place must now present a qualifying medical certificate that is less than four days old, with few exceptions. Arrivals from countries without a travel warning in place can enter without need for a certificate or quarantine. A list of countries can be found on the government's website, listed in German.

Accor has launched the ALLSAFE global cleanliness & prevention label, which has been developed with, and vetted by, Bureau Veritas - a world leader in testing, inspections and certification. All of the group's hotels must adhere to these standards, and will be subject to audits either by Accor operational experts or by third-party auditors such as Bureau Veritas to receive this label.

The country's government announced today that it will allow entry to citizens from most European nations with a low number of COVID-19 infections from 27 June - two months earlier than originally planned. This includes around two million people from some qualifying regions of nearby, hard-hit Sweden.

The country's government announced today that from 19 June it will introduce an obligatory 14-day quarantine from Friday for most people coming from Serbia, Bosnia and Kosovo. This follows the previous introduction on 13 June of the same measures for 31 countries with high numbers of COVID-19 cases including Russia, the United States, the United Kingdom and Sweden.

Hilton has announced updates to a global program developed to introduce a new standard of hotel cleanliness and disinfection to ensure that guests enjoy an even cleaner and safer stay: Hilton CleanStay with Lysol protection. The program has been developed with experts from RB, maker of Lysol and Dettol - brands trusted for safely disinfecting surfaces. In addition, experts from the Infection Prevention and Control team at Mayo Clinic will advise and assist in enhancing Hilton’s cleaning disinfection protocols.

The country’s government has re-opened its borders to residents of countries which meet a criteria of less than 25 cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 population; the list of countries is updated weekly.

The country's foreign ministry announced today that on 30 June Sweden will lift its advice against non-essential travel to 10 European countries - Greece, Croatia, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Slovenia, France, Iceland, Belgium, Switzerland and Luxembourg.

The rail operator has published updated information on safety and hygiene measures, flexible travel policies and revised timetables to assist passengers.

The country has today re-opened borders to international arrivals; its national carrier, Ukraine International Airlines, is expected to resume international services within the next week, and currently a 14 day arrival quarantine is still in place until at least 22 June.

The British embassy in Spain confirmed today that British citizens will be allowed to travel to the country when it opens its borders on 21 June. The Spanish government announced yesterday that the re-opening of its borders to most European visitors had been accelerated 10 days earlier than the previously planned date of 1 July.

The airline took to the skies today for the first time since 30 March, flying to a small number of mainly domestic UK destinations. By August, easyJet plans to resume around 75% of routes, albeit at a much lower frequency than the same time last year.

Spanish airport operator Aena said today that it would re-open Terminal 1 of Madrid’s Barajas Airport on 1 July after three months of closure, while some terminals at Barcelona’s El Prat Airport will re-open through July and August. Barajas’s Terminal 4 was already open, while Barcelona had kept parts of its Terminal 1 open throughout Spain’s COVID-19 border closures.

From 15 June, all passengers arriving in Iceland can chose to be tested for COVID-19 (free of charge until 30 June, and ISK 15,000 per test thereafter) or self-isolate for 14 days upon arrival. A pre-registration form must also be completed before departure.

The country will re-open its borders to visitors from Europe’s open-border Schengen area from 21 June, 10 days earlier than previously planned. Visitors from countries outside of the Schengen area will be able to visit Spain from 1 July, subject to their own restrictions.

The country has today relaxed its domestic travel recommendations, allowing anyone without COVID-19 symptoms to travel freely within the country for whatever reason, as long as health and safety precautions are taken. Previously, the government has advised against all non-essential journeys by car which take longer than two hours.

The country is set to allow all travel to and from Finland, Iceland and the Swedish island of Gotland from 15 June. Restrictions on arrivals from Sweden, however, will remain in place.

The country’s government announced today it will lift restrictions at its borders for EU travellers plus arrivals from Andorra, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Norway, San Marino, and Switzerland from 15 June. Restrictions, though, including a fortnight quarantine upon arrival, will continue to apply at the borders with Spain and with the UK.

The country's government said today that from 13 June it will introduce a mandatory 14-day quarantine for most people coming to Slovenia from 31 countries where the situation with COVID-19 has worsened over the past weeks; this includes Sweden, the UK, Russia, United States and Brazil.