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The Tui travel company canceled all holidays at a party resort on a Greek island due to customers not following coronavirus security measures.
Tui said it will no longer offer trips to the Laganas resort in Zante from Thursday.
It comes after six clusters of cases were related to flights from the island.
The UK government is under pressure to reconsider England’s quarantine rules for Greece, after Scotland and Wales introduced their own measures.
The Scottish government announced that all travelers arriving from Greece will be asked to self-isolate for 14 days after 04:00 BST on Thursday, while the Welsh Minister of Health has asked those arriving from Zante to quarantine.
Andrew Flintham, Managing Director of Tui UK & Ireland, said that anyone who booked to go to Laganas after September 3 would receive a refund for the cancellation, but that travel to all other Zakynthos resorts would continue as normal. .
“Laganas is a popular place for young people who traditionally spend their holidays in large groups of friends,” he said.
“The health and safety of our colleagues and clients is our primary concern and recent cases show that some clients are not following Covid safety measures and social distancing.
“It is therefore the right thing to do to protect and reduce a potential risk now identified to others by discontinuing vacationing at this specific resort.”
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Welsh Health Minister Vaughan Gething said that people returning from Zakynthos pose a risk to public health
Almost 200 people faced self-isolation after at least 16 passengers on a Tui flight from Zante to Cardiff airport tested positive for the virus. Some people claimed that passengers were not following Covid-19 rules.
Welsh Health Minister Vaughan Gething said there were six clusters of cases, amounting to more than 30 infections, linked to flights from the Greek island last week, including two flights that landed in England.
Gething called on the UK government to agree to meet with the delegated nations on Wednesday to urgently discuss removing Greece from the nations’ quarantine exemption lists. The meeting usually takes place on Thursdays.
His comments came shortly after the Scottish government announced its own decision.
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Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf said: “With Scotland’s relatively low infection rate, the importation of new cases from Greece is a significant risk to public health.”
When a country exceeds 20 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the last week, the UK government typically imposes 14 days of self-isolation on returning travelers.
There were 14.0 cases of coronavirus per 100,000 people in Greece in the seven days to August 31, up from 14.9 the previous week. But several cases of the virus in Scotland date back to Greece, including a passenger on a Tui flight from Zante to Glasgow on 23 August.
Tui said customers traveling to Greece from Scotland could modify or cancel their holidays in light of the quarantine announcement.
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Meanwhile, ministers are considering reimposing quarantine measures for those arriving in the UK from Portugal as coronavirus cases rise, sources told the BBC.
Less than two weeks have passed since a travel corridor between Portugal and the United Kingdom was established, after a sustained period of falling cases in the country that placed it below 20 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
But tourists are scrambling to return from Portugal amid fears that the country is on the verge of being delisted.
As of September 1, the UK recorded 25.0 coronavirus cases per 100,000 people over the past fortnight, while Portugal recorded 36.7, according to the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control.
Each year, more than two million Britons visit Portugal, which constitutes the largest number of foreign tourists to the country.
During May and June, the Portuguese government reopened its restaurants, cafes, museums and beaches. Hotels have mostly reopened, but nightclubs remain closed.
The government has not commented whether the requirements for arrivals from Portugal will change again.
Last week, Switzerland, Jamaica and the Czech Republic joined France, Spain and other destinations on the UK’s quarantine list.
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