BRITS are expected to flock to beaches and resorts this bank holiday with temperatures approaching 30C.
However, tourist hotspots are asking people NOT to visit, warning they are still "not ready" for an influx in tourism.
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The UK has relaxed the current lockdown rules, allowing households to drive to locations further away.
However, social distancing must still be followed – although many have struggled due to the sheer volume of people.
On May 13, prime minister Boris Johnson explained: "You can sit in the sun in your local park, you can drive to other destinations, you can even play sports but only with members of your own household."
Locals in the Lake District are using fake road blocks and signs to stop visitors from driving through, however, due to high volumes of tourists.
People in the area have slammed visitors, with many walking through their farms with one family even "knocking on their door in the middle of the night" after getting lost.
With Cumbria having some of the highest rates of coronavirys in the country, they are asking people to stay away.
Richard Leafe, Lake District National Park chief executive, told the Daily Mail: "Please don't travel for the moment to the Lake District because of the impact that you will have on the local communities here.
"Cumbria already has a fairly high incidence of Covid, so there is real concern on the ground about large amounts of people coming back."
Rural villages in Scotland are also resorting to signs telling tourists to go home.
One sign read "if you're not a key worker or local, turn around and go home" while another said "a pandemic is not code for a holiday".
A small village sign warned that they didn't have the infrastructure with the "nearest hospital over 40 miles away".
Towns and beaches in Norfolk have faced similar problems of high numbers, despite keeping public toilets and car parks closed.
One resident told local media: "Day-trippers need to respect the fact that this village is home to a largely elderly population and not a tourist attraction."
Scarborough Council’s deputy leader Cllr Liz Colling thanked people in the nearby areas for not overwhelming the area, and asked families and househoulds to do the same this weekend as well.
She told Yorkshire Live: “With the weather expected to warm up again this week, I ask people to continue to play their part in helping to control the spread of coronavirus by only coming back to visit us when we are ready to welcome you properly.
"That time will come, but we’re not there yet.”
Summer holidays in Britain may be a flashback to the 1970s, thanks to new rules on social distancing as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
That means soggy sandwiches on the beach, long car journeys and a renewed love of the caravan break.
Russell Imrie, managing director of the Queensferry Hotels chain told The Herald: "For travel in the UK, it is almost as if it is going to go back to
the 1970s, where we are all going to go into our cars as a family, and
we are all going to drive to the seaside, the forests, the coasts and
the country.
“The era of cheap air travel, and international travel, is going to
take so long to come back that we are going to be having breaks that
will look familiar to our parents, and not the generation that is used
to travelling today.”
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