Travel

Madrid’s FITUR, one of the world’s biggest tourism fairs, is expecting to welcome 100,000 visitors from 60 countries when it opens in the Spanish capital next week, the organizers said Thursday. They said it would be...

Thailand has banned travelers coming from Bangladesh on the back of the first confirmed cases of the Indian variant of Covid-19. Thailand has also prohibited travelers from Nepal and Pakistan. There has been a ban on...

Heathrow Airport has refused to allow extra flights from India before the country is added to the UK travel red list on Friday. It turned down the requests from airlines because of concerns about queues at...

The US state department is to advise Americans to avoid 80% of countries worldwide because of the coronavirus pandemic. In a note to the media about its updated travel guidance, it said the pandemic continued to...

France will suspend all flights to and from Brazil in a bid to prevent the spread of the coronavirus variant first detected there, French Prime Minister Jean Castex said in parliament. “We take note that the...

French lawmakers have moved to ban short-haul internal flights where train alternatives exist, in a bid to reduce carbon emissions. Over the weekend, lawmakers voted in favour of a bill to end routes where the same...

New Zealand approved quarantine-free travel with Australia Tuesday, with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern saying a two-way corridor for trans-Tasman travel will begin on the night of April 18. “I can confirm that quarantine-free travel will begin...

A second wave of coronavirus infections threatens to upend a tourism boom in Dubai that provided salve to its battered economy, although with so few places open globally its hospitality sector hopes tourists will keep coming....

The boss of Ryanair is forecasting “a strong return” for European beach holidays this summer thanks to the Covid-19 vaccination programme. Michael O’Leary said he expected travel restrictions to be dropped once high risk groups were...

The World Heritage Site (World Heritage Site) Sundarbans, Bangabandhu Safari Park, Lauachhara National Park and all national parks and eco-tourism are being reopened on Sunday (November 1) after a seven-month shutdown due to global corona conditions....