An island businessman was gobsmacked to see remote Tristan da Cunha named on a ’green list’ as one of the holiday locations people could visit without needing to quarantine.

Martin Brunnschweiler said: ’Tristan is well known for being the most remote inhabited island on the planet.

’I was amazed to see it on the UK government list. It is is not just the sort of place where you turn up.’ He said visits need to be planned months in advance and hopeful visitors need special permission to go there from the island’s administration, known as the elders.

He said the remote group of islands in the South Atlantic Ocean can be reached by a week-long trip by cargo boat from Cape Town, South Africa, more than 1,700 miles away.

Bushy’s Brewery boss Mr Brunnschweiler and his wife Debbie embarked on a trip there about five years ago to help launch a micro-brewery for the island’s only pub, The Albatross Bar.

The couple sailed from Cape Town in a mail ship with brewing equipment. The island’s website advises : ’You can’t just turn up in Cape Town and jump on a ship to Tristan da Cunha.’