Tui’s feeling beach-ready, thanks partly to a big bailout from Berlin

The world's biggest holiday firm is setting sail for a brighter summer as Brits grab their chance to seek some (Algarve) sun

Tristan da Cunha, here we come. Travel firm Tui will have given one tiny cheer at the end of last week, when the UK government finally confirmed the resumption of international leisure travel with a threadbare green list" of far-flung countries, where desperate holidaymakers can safely venture without a 10-day quarantine on return.

For those who want to stay in the northern hemisphere, at least Portugal made the cut, although Tui executives are doubtless examining the pool facilities in fellow green-lister the Faroe Islands right now. Tui, the world's biggest tourism company, will give more details of the state of the holiday market when it reports first-half results on Wednesday.