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With tourists slow to return, Egypt's resorts and ancient sites face tough winter

Even as international flights and tourist spots open up and Egypt's coronavirus cases remain in check, officials, hotel owners and tour guides concede that the key winter season starting in October is going to be tough.

4 years ago
News

Citilink opens four new routes connecting Sulawesi towns

As the largest city in eastern Indonesia, Makassar serves as an important hub for passengers traveling to cities in Sulawesi, Maluku and Papua.  ...

4 years ago
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Tokyo Disneyland to open Sept. 28 new area of 'Beauty and the Beast'

Tokyo Disneyland's new area with attractions featuring the "Beauty and the Beast" movie will welcome the public starting Sept. 28, operator Oriental Land Co. said Thursday. ...

4 years ago

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Emirates airline to produce kosher meals as Israel beckons

The Emirates airline group unveiled plans Thursday to produce kosher meals in keeping with Jewish dietary rules, two days after the UAE and Israel signed a deal to normalize ties. 

4 years ago
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International arrivals to Abu Dhabi must wear COVID-19 tracking device

International passengers arriving at Abu Dhabi airport will now have to wear a tracking device while they complete a mandatory 14-day home quarantine due to COVID-19, according to state-owned Etihad Airways.

4 years ago
News

Bali’s Ngurah Rai, Incheon collaborate to boost air travel confidence

State-owned airport operator PT Angkasa Pura I (API) has announced its collaboration with South Korea's Incheon International Airport Corporation (IIAC) regarding the implementation of the safe corridor initiative (SCI) at I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali.

4 years ago
News

Travelers snap up Asian airlines' scenic 'flights to nowhere'

Qantas Airways Ltd said a seven-hour scenic flight over Australia's Outback and Great Barrier Reef had sold out in 10 minutes, as it joined a growing trend in Asia offering "flights to nowhere" that take off and land at the same airport.

4 years ago
Destination

Moroccan village riffs on Hendrix legends and myths

Some claim to have seen him, others to have spoken with him -- 50 years after guitar legend Jimi Hendrix's untimely death, a village on Morocco's Atlantic coast pulsates with his memory.

4 years ago
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West Manggarai wants visitors to Komodo Island to use local tour operators

Tourists planning to visit Labuan Bajo and Komodo National Park in East Nusa Tenggara are encouraged to make an online reservation with a registered travel agency or tour operator in West Manggarai regency prior to arriving, an administration official has said

4 years ago
News

Cities press EU for tougher laws governing Airbnb rentals

An alliance of 22 European cities urged the EU on Thursday to enact tougher rules on Airbnb and other short-term holiday rental platforms, accusing them of driving up property prices and squeezing out locals.

4 years ago
News

Virus delays completion date for Spain's Sagrada Familia

The long-awaited completion of Barcelona's Sagrada Familia will no longer happen in 2026 because the coronavirus epidemic has curtailed its construction and frustrated funding, basilica officials admitted Wednesday.

4 years ago
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Singaporeans to get $100 tourism vouchers for staycations, attractions and local tours

Singaporeans aged 18 and above this year will each receive SG$100 (US$73.54) in digital vouchers to spend on staycations, tickets to leisure attractions and local tours.

4 years ago
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South Africa to reopen borders to most countries on Oct. 1

South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa said Wednesday that borders will reopen to most countries next month as the country further eases anti-coronavirus measures.

4 years ago
News

Thomas Cook brand relaunches as online travel agency

The Chinese-owned Thomas Cook brand relaunched Wednesday as an online travel agency following the British group's collapse last year.

4 years ago
News

Dungeons and dragons: Thai temples put quirky spin on Buddhism

A dragon encircles a tower, wretched souls face torture, superheroes scale a mosaic wall -- these may seem like scenes from a half-remembered dream, but are in fact famed Thai temples.

4 years ago
News

Disneyland and California theme parks push for reopening

Disneyland, Universal Studios and other theme parks have called on California officials to set out the health criteria required for them to reopen, warning that tens of thousands of jobs are at stake.

4 years ago
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Amanwana on Moyo Island reopens to guests

Amanwana, the only resort on Moyo Island in Sumbawa regency, West Nusa Tenggara, has officially reopened to guests after closing temporarily due to the pandemic.

4 years ago
News

Morocco's Marrakesh 'suffocates' without tourists

With tough government restrictions imposed to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus, the tourism industry on which Marrakesh depends screeched to a halt.

4 years ago
News

Another Japanese airline removes passenger refusing to wear face mask

An airline in Japan on Saturday removed a male passenger who refused to wear a face mask from a domestic flight, airline officials said Monday, in the latest case in which a flight operator refused service to a passenger due to fears over the novel coronavirus.

4 years ago
News

European air travel nosedives as virus resurges

The total number of passenger flights in Europe will plummet by more than expected this year as countries fail to coordinate policy on air travel during a pandemic, Eurocontrol said on Monday.

4 years ago
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Saudi to ease international flight restrictions Tuesday

Saudi Arabia will partially lift its suspension on international flights from Tuesday, six months after travel curbs were imposed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

4 years ago
Activities

Diving safely amid the pandemic

Many industries in Indonesia have suffered because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and one of them is the diving tourism industry.

4 years ago
News

New Zealand to lift coronavirus curbs in most of country on Sept. 21

New Zealand will lift coronavirus restrictions across the country on Sept. 21, except in its biggest city, Auckland, which is the epicenter of a second wave of infections.

4 years ago
News

2020 global tourism expected to drop 57% amid tighter border controls

Global international travel demand is expected to drop 57 percent in 2020, dented by tighter border controls and quarantine measures imposed in an effort to stem the coronavirus outbreak, according to a British research firm.

4 years ago
News

More visitors now allowed at Mount Bromo

The Mount Bromo national park has increased the visitor quota for the popular destination in East Java from 739 to 1,265 people a day, but age restrictions now apply.

4 years ago
News

27 tourist sites in Jakarta to be closed again starting Monday

Twenty-seven tourist attractions in Jakarta will be closed to visitors starting Monday following the reinstatement of large-scale social restrictions (PSBB).

4 years ago
News

Wuhan airport's domestic flights, passenger numbers return to pre-epidemic levels

The airport in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, once hard hit during the COVID-19 epidemic, saw its numbers of domestic passenger flights as well as passengers return to the levels a year ago on Friday, the airport operator said Saturday.

4 years ago
News

Singapore Airlines eyeing 'flights to nowhere' to give a lift to ailing business

Sources say carrier is working towards launching this option for domestic passengers by end-Oct.

4 years ago
News

Finland relaxes COVID rules to boost Lapland tourism

Finland will allow holidaymakers to visit the country for up to three days in order to help the struggling tourist industry, ministers announced on Friday. 

4 years ago
News

Japan, Singapore to resume short-term business travel from Sept. 18

Japan will resume short-term business travel with Singapore from Sept. 18, marking the first time that Tokyo has decided to allow the entry of businesspeople without requiring a 14-day self-isolation period amid the coronavirus pandemic, Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said Friday.

4 years ago
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