Travel

An Israeli military body has released a list of rules and restrictions for foreigners wanting to enter Palestinian areas of the West Bank, extending its control of daily life and movement in and out of the occupied territory. COGAT, the…
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China has locked down 65 million of its citizens under tough Covid-19 restrictions and is discouraging domestic travel during upcoming national holidays. Most of the 21 million people in the southwestern city of Chengdu are confined to…
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Saudi Arabia has reopened the visa-on-arrival program for holders of valid visas for the US, UK and Schengen area, effective immediately. Citizens of any country who hold one of the three visas and who are travelling on one of the…
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Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur recently inaugurated a heliport at Rampur in Shimla district. He added that the government has also taken several initiatives to lure tourists to unexplored areas, and is working toward…
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Everything changed on February 24, the day Russia invaded Ukraine. As Russian rockets rained down on Ukraine, international sanctions were quick to follow: The Russian ruble crashed, Russian bank accounts and credit cards were blocked…
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Finland on Thursday slashed the number of visas issued to Russian citizens to a tenth of the regular amount in a move seen as a show of solidarity with Ukraine. Finland, which shares the longest border with Russia of all European Union…
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European Union member states agreed to make it costlier and more difficult for Russian tourists to travel to the bloc, but stopped short of a full visa ban. The bloc’s foreign ministers gave their political backing to suspending a 2007…
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Japan will allow non-guided package tours from all countries from Sept. 7 and more than double the number of people it permits to enter daily as it further rolls back some of strictest Covid-19 border controls among major economies. The…
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Despite cost of living fears, heatwaves and wildfires, the summer 2022 is looking to have been good for the French tourism industry as local and foreign holiday makers swarmed the country after the COVID-19 pandemic rattled the sector…
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Qatar is gearing up for a World Cup tourism boom as the tiny Gulf state prepares to welcome more than a million soccer fans. One complication: many of them can’t or won’t stay there. An accommodation squeeze and low tolerance for alcohol…
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