Travel

British tourists and French ski resorts reacted with delight on Thursday after the French government announced an easing of coronavirus travel restrictions that had blocked all non-essential trips over the year-end holidays. A blanket ban…
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South Africa’s tourism minister Lindiwe Sisulu has welcomed the decision by EU countries to remove South Africa from red lists, but simultaneously lamented the loss of over a billion rand in much-needed tourism revenue during the peak…
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Dubai’s business conditions accelerated last month as easing travel restrictions and the Expo 2020 exhibition helped boost the city’s key tourism industry, before a renewed surge in coronavirus cases. Dubai’s business conditions…
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Thailand added three popular beach destinations to a visa program that allows foreign visitors to bypass a mandatory isolation, throwing a lifeline to its Covid-hit tourism industry seen as key to a nascent economic recovery. Starting…
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On Monday, several new restrictions came into place in Italy for those not vaccinated against Covid-19. In order to visit restaurants, hotels, trade fairs, ski lifts, local or long-distance trains and buses, you must now present a proof of…
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Turkmenistan's president, Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, said Saturday he wants to extinguish the flaming Darvaza natural gas crater. The site is a popular tourist attraction in the Central Asian country, and is known as the "Gates of Hell."…
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Thailand indefinitely suspended a quarantine-free visa program for vaccinated visitors and ordered a ban on the sale of alcohol at restaurants in areas deemed at high risk of Covid infections to curb the spread of the omicron variant. The…
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The Centre on Friday issued a revised guideline for international passengers amid the exponential rise of Omicron cases making 7-day home quarantine mandatory for all those coming from abroad. The new guideline will come into effect from…
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Thailand will extend the suspension of its quarantine waiver programme and bring in new restrictions after a jump in new coronavirus cases linked to the Omicron variant, the government's COVID-19 taskforce said on Friday. New applications…
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The Andaman and Nicobar administration announced a set of curbs for tourists amid the rise in Covid-19 cases. Now on, 500 visitors will be allowed during in the first half -- 9 am to 12.30 pm -- at the museums of the Cellular Jail, which…
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