Where are the best value holidays while staying safe from coronavirus? Hit the beach in Barbados for a week for £674 or spend two weeks in an Tuscany five star hotel for £952

After more than three months in lockdown, many Britons are desperate to escape their neighbourhoods and jet off on holiday.
And the government's shift from a two-week quarantine for those arriving in the UK to a 'traffic light' system showing the safest destinations will make it much easier.
The new process, earmarked for July 6, will see countries rated green, amber or red based on Covid infections, the trust in official data and their test and trace systems
But there will be drastic changes for visitors to the islands, with businesses such as Corfu Cruises remaining shut due to low numbers.
Nicole Pandis from the family business told the Telegraph: 'It's a big change not working in the summer and we're all worried about winter but we really don't know if we can afford the costs of operating for just a few people to come on a tour.
'Then if just a few people come, is it really worth the risk of opening to them at all?'
Tourism employs about 700,000 people and accounts for some 20 per cent of Greece's economic output.
How the sector fares is significant for the country's recovery. Greece emerged from a decade-long debt crisis two years ago.
How much will it cost?
Athens has some cheap deals for British holidaymakers this summer, with a one-way trip via a stop over starting at just £76.
And a package holiday to the historic capital city come in as cheap as £178.
A seven-night all-inclusive stay at Crete Maris Beach Resort from £3,332 for a family of four with Gatwick flights on August 7.
A fortnight-long three-star, self-catering break in Aghios Georgios in Corfu from £438pp with Luton flights on August 1.
A fortnight at upmarket Villa Penelope I, sleeping four, with a pool, from £4,691 on August 16.
Italy
Is coronavirus under control?
Italy has been battered by the coronavirus crisis, with huge numbers of deaths and infections.
But it appears to be at a turning point, and has eased restrictions on its population and tourists.
The country registered 30 more deaths of people with coronavirus infections on Friday, with 16 of them in Lombardy, the northern region that continues to still have by far the highest daily tally of new confirmed cases.
Italy has been battered by the coronavirus crisis, with huge numbers of deaths and infections. Pictured: Rome
Italy has been battered by the coronavirus crisis, with huge numbers of deaths and infections. Pictured: Rome
According to Health Ministry data, the nation confirmed 259 new cases since Thursday, raising to 239,961 the number of known coronavirus infections since Italy's outbreak began in late February.
Meanwhile 28 migrants rescued from the Mediterranean Sea tested positive for coronavirus, Sicily's governor said on Wednesday.
The positive tests represent the largest cluster yet among newly arrived migrants.
The migrants were being held on a ship off the Sicilian town of Porto Empedocle where some would-be asylum seekers are taken to undergo quarantine after being rescued at sea.
Deaths in Italy now total 34,708. Authorities say the number of overall cases and deaths is certainly higher, since many without serious symptoms didn't get tested, and many died in nursing homes without being tested.
Are tourist activities open?
Italy reopened its borders to tourists from Europe at the start of the month, three months after they were shut as the country went into coronavirus lockdown.
Travellers from most other European countries are allowed in with no quarantine and people are allowed to move freely between regions.
Once in Italy, visitors face restrictions imposed on all Italians which include observing social distance, wearing a mask in public, and a ban on large gatherings.
Hotels, bars, restaurants, museums, campsites and even mountain huts have reopened.
Italy reopened its borders to tourists from Europe at the start of the month, three months after they were shut as the country went into coronavirus lockdown. Pictured: eople gather around a typical horse-drawn carriage decorated with flowers at Piazza di Spagna in Rome
Italy reopened its borders to tourists from Europe at the start of the month, three months after they were shut as the country went into coronavirus lockdown. Pictured: eople gather around a typical horse-drawn carriage decorated with flowers at Piazza di Spagna in Rome
Face masks must be worn in indoor public places, and in outdoor places where one-metre social distancing is impossible.
In Lombardy it is still mandatory to wear masks outdoors. Social distancing on beaches is 1.5 metres. Temperature checks may be requested.
Italy, like many other European countries, is desperately trying to revive its tourism industry in time for the lucrative summer season.
Some areas are offering discounted air fares and extra nights in hotels to try to make up for lost earnings over the past few months.
For visitors things are steadily starting to return to normal. The Piazza San Marco in Venice has people wandering around admiring the architecture, and the Doge's Palace saw 1,000 tickets sold on its reopening day two weeks ago.
Similarly gondolas are once again meandering their way through the canal system and cafes and shops have reopened for business.
The tourism industry makes up 15 per cent of the workforce and 13 per cent of GDP, so is of high value to the economy.
How much will it cost?
A quick trip to the Lombardy city of Milan would set one person back as little as £30, while a package holiday in Rome would be about £399.
A fortnight at the four-star Grand Hotel Francia e Quirinale in Tuscany is from £952pp.
A week at TUI BLUE Nastro Azzurro in Piano di Sorrento is from £1,076pp all-inclusive on August 24.
Barbados 
Is coronavirus under control? 
The popular holiday island of Barbados in the Caribbean has been well sheltered from the coronavirus.
There have been just seven deaths attributed to the killer bug, with 97 infections and 90 people having recovered.
The popular holiday island of Barbados in the Caribbean has been well sheltered from the coronavirus
The popular holiday island of Barbados in the Caribbean has been well sheltered from the coronavirus
Daily cases spiked at 11 on April 1, but have plummeted to just one as of June 15.
It would be a reasonably safe destination for Britons to jet to and is labelled as green on the government's new travel traffic light system.
The country had a curfew in place from 8am to 5pm which was lifted on May 31, with the authorities also limiting beach hours from 6am to 9am and 4pm to 6.30pm from May 18.
Are tourist activities open?
The island is expecting visitors mainly from next month, and ahead of their arrival the minister for tourism has pledged to upgrade a number of sites.
St Lawrence Gap, Oistins, Holetown, Bridgetown and Baxter's Road are all going to get a makeover, Kerrie Symmonds said yesterday.
He told Barbados Today: 'We need to recognize that as we reenter the global business of tourism we have to do so in a way in which we are selling Barbados to not only Barbadians but to the rest of the world as being an area which is considerably more upbeat and lively.
'St Lawrence Gap is one such example and so as recently as yesterday Cabinet would have approved a paper which allows us now to focus on the refurbishment in many ways of St Lawrence Gap, the improvement of the product in the Gap and dealing with some of the issues relating to cleanliness, safety, that we've kicked down the road for a long time and never properly confronted.'
Prime Minister Mia Mottley added that she will be launching a new tourism brand for the island to attract even more visitors.
How much will it cost?
A one-way ticket to Barbados, which many Brits may dream of, will set you back around £234, while a package holiday costs from £674.
France
Is coronavirus under control?
France said it had the coronavirus outbreak 'under control' at the start of the month as the country cautiously lifted its lockdown measures.
France (pictured, children playing football near the Eiffel Tower on Thursday) said it had the outbreak 'under control' at the start of the month as the country cautiously lifted its lockdown
France (pictured, children playing football near the Eiffel Tower on Thursday) said it had the outbreak 'under control' at the start of the month as the country cautiously lifted its lockdown
It has reported 29,752 coronavirus deaths since the outbreak began making it the third worst-hit country in Europe after the UK and Italy.

But the number of daily deaths has dropped dramatically in recent weeks and the number of new cases also dropped significantly to a few hundred per day.

France had one of mainland Europe's toughest responses to coronavirus with stay-at-home orders and business closures issued.

Are tourist activities open?
Expect strict social distancing in restaurants, bars, markets and stores, where shopkeepers reserve the right to demand customers wear face masks.
Gatherings of more than ten people in public are banned. Nightclubs, like in the UK, remain closed.
The lockdown was partially lifted last month when hair salons, clothes shops, florists and bookshops were permitted to open again.
Restaurants, theatres, gyms, swimming pools, beaches and museums were allowed to reopen on June 2.
How much will it cost?
A fortnight at a cottage for four in Brittany from £1,200 in August including Portsmouth-St Malo ferry crossing with car.
A fortnight at a four-star beachfront hotel in Cannes with flights and transfers departing from Gatwick in August from £1,400pp.
A week at a villa sleeping six on the Aigues Mortes Marina in Languedoc Roussillon from £950, excluding flights. 

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