The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) announced a joint campaign with Alipay, China’s leading digital payment platform operated by Ant Group, and online travel platform Fliggy, a part of Alibaba Group, marking TAT’s latest initiative to reboot domestic tourism and accelerate industry recovery after the Covid-19 lockdown. Named Local Chinese Expats Domestic Travel Campaign, the […]
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With surging COVID-19 infections across the country for much of the summer, 72% of Americans decided not to take a summer vacation this year, and some have written 2020 off altogether for travel with 32% deciding to take a vacation in summer 2021. Key findings include 72% of Americans did not take a summer vacation […]
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Wizz Air Abu Dhabi, the new national airline of the United Arab Emirates celebrated the arrival of its first state-of-the-art new Airbus A321neo aircraft to Abu Dhabi International Airport. Wizz Air Abu Dhabi, the joint venture established between ADQ, one of the region’s largest holding companies, and Wizz Air Holdings, recently received national carrier status […]
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Phuket, Thailand reopening delayed as country records new COVID case after three months
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After three months of being COVID-free, Thailand has recorded its first case of locally-transmitted COVID case. Due to this, the proposed “Phuket model” is likely to be delayed, according to Yuthasak Supasorn, governor of the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT). A 37-year-old male prison inmate tested positive for COVID-19 during his 14-day quarantine. He worked […]
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(Left to Right) Josephine Smith-Moffat, Loretta St Julian-Ooms and Tammie Tam Tourism Fiji has announced the appointment of three new highly experienced and knowledgeable directors to its board. The three are Josephine Smith-Moffat, Loretta St Julian-Ooms and Tammie Tam. They join the existing board members of Andre Viljoen (chair), Shaheen Ali, Neeraj Chadha, Petaia Tuimanu […]
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Travel insurance firm Medical Travel Compared has analysed 2020 Google searches to identify next year’s top holiday destinations of choice among Brits. The research shows that it’s the picture-perfect Maldives that sweeps the number one spot of dream holiday destinations, closely followed by Mexico and then Bali. For those in the north of the UK […]
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Ready to bounce back! Vietjet responds to pandemic by introducing self-handling ground operations
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The new-age carrier Vietjet officially self-handled its ground operations at the Noi Bai International Airport in the capital Hanoi, becoming the first ever private carrier to set up its own ground handling arm in Vietnam. The move aims to improve the airline’s service quality, independently and flexibly adjust its own flight schedule to meet seasonal […]
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Bahrain’s Nationality, Passport and Residence Affairs (NPRA) has announced the resuming of on-arrival visa for nationals of 68 countries at the kingdom’s ports. Residents of the Gulf countries could also get the on-arrival visas, except the citizens and residents of Qatar and they have to get their visas before coming to the kingdom. Bahrain had […]
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Mastercard Recovery Insights: Italy, Russia and France lead travel spending recovery in G20 countries
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Despite the challenges brought on by COVID-19, there are promising signs in consumer spending – including hard-hit sectors like travel, according to Mastercard Recovery Insights. Recovery Insights: Travel Check-In, the second report in Mastercard’s series focused on the impacts of the pandemic, including emerging trends in travel spending. In particular, the analysis of anonymised and […]