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A tourist poses for photos at the Grand Palace in Bangkok, Thailand on Nov. 1, 2021. (Xinhua/Wang Teng) As China’s optimized COVID-19 strategy takes effect, people-to-people exchanges and the connectivity between China and other parts of the world will be further strengthened, and the world will see a new hope for recovery. BANGKOK, Jan. 6 […]

January 6, 2023 SEOUL – A new rule mandating airline passengers traveling from China to South Korea to show negative COVID-19 test results before entering the country was applied Thursday, as the government expressed concerns over an uptick in imported virus cases from the neighboring country. For the next two months, all passengers arriving from […]

Source: This study by Milieu Insight was conducted on 1,000 respondents each from Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia and the Philippines who intend to celebrate Chinese New Year (CNY) this year. Screening questions were asked prior to find out if they were celebrating CNY for them to be eligible for this study. Fieldwork was conducted in December […]

(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) While Singapore sees no specific or credible terrorist threats at present, there is still a need to stay alert to potential threats on the horizon, local newspaper the Straits Times reported Thursday, quoting a report, trend reports citing xinhua . Released by the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore’s […]

TOKYO, Jan 6 (Reuters) – Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki is set to visit Singapore and Vietnam to meet high government officials from Jan. 10-13, the Ministry of Finance said on Friday. There will be no media opportunities during his visits, but the minister will brief reporters on results of the trip at a news […]

Fam trips for tour operators have been deployed by SriLankan Airlines as a tool to demonstrate the country’s readiness for tourism, with a series conducted over the course of 4Q2022 resulting in some group bookings. The biggest fam trip, titled Pearl of the Orient, was hosted from November 16 to 19, 2022 for 170 agents […]

By Yasir Masood (China Daily) 10:40, January 06, 2023 Travelers enter a terminal at Beijing Capital International Airport to take flights. [Photo by Cui Jun/For China Daily] The global resurgence of COVID-19 has prompted media outlets in some Western countries, including the United States, to launch yet another campaign to tarnish China. A quick flashback […]

China’s tourism sector hopes for New Year’s boost Transport & tourism (general) Destinations and locations Greater China With the easing of China’s zero-Covid approach, the country’s tourism industry had been hoping to see trade pick up over the coming New Year holiday period, but that seems unlikely given a surge in new cases and […]

India has requested Indonesia to permit the import of buffalo meat through the port of Medan on its northern coast rather than Jakarta, owing to its physical proximity to the country. As explained by the officials, the shipment would significantly increase if exports of bovine meat were allowed through Medan port, which is situated in […]

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Southeast Asia’s tourist economies are set to be leading beneficiaries of China’s scrapping of travel bans as they have steered clear of the COVID-19 tests before entry that Europe, Japan and the United States have imposed on Chinese visitors. FILE PHOTO: Travellers arrive with their luggage at the Beijing Capital International Airport […]