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Firefighters battle to contain blaze on Cape Town’s Table Mountain

April 20, 2021889 Views

South African firefighters contained a wildfire along Cape Town’s Table Mountain on Monday more than 24 hours after it began, damaging historical sites and forcing people to evacuate their homes and schools to close. Winds of up to 45 kilometres per hour put water-bombing helicopters out of action and more than 250 firefighters were tackling fast-spreading flare-ups from the ground only. Flames are seen close to the city fanned by strong winds after a bushfire broke out on the slopes of Table Mountain in Cape Town, South Africa, April 19, 2021. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings Officials believe the blaze may have been started deliberately and a suspect was detained on Sunday evening. They also said it was one of the most damaging cultural heritage fires ever. "With regards to the damage...

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IATA & Unilabs partner to help passengers manage Covid-19 tests

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April 20, 2021433 Views

Unilabs, the leading European diagnostic services provider, and the International Air Transport Association (IATA), the trade association for the world’s airlines, have signed an agreement to incorporate Unilabs’ worldwide Covid-19 testing network into IATA Travel Pass. The agreement will make Unilabs one of the first major lab groups to be integrated into IATA’s Travel Pass app. Proof of a negative Covid-19 test is required by many governments as a condition of entry, and the app makes the process seamless, secure, and easy. “Covid-19 testing will play a role in re-starting international travel. Travelers will need to understand test requirements, locate labs, verify their identity to the lab and transfer their test results to relevant parties – airlines and governments – as ne...

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Australia-New Zealand travel bubble launches with lopsided demand

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April 20, 2021385 Views

A testing and quarantine free travel bubble between Australia and New Zealand launched with lopsided demand, according to airlines and data firms, with an unusually high number of the travellers departing from Australia. The initial results from Asia’s first restriction-free travel bubble since the pandemic hit, which opened on Monday, showed that travel patterns can depart from their norms after such a long closure and may take time to return to normal. FILE PHOTO: A passenger arrives from New Zealand after the Trans-Tasman travel bubble opened overnight, following an extended border closure due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, at Sydney Airport in Sydney, Australia. REUTERS/Loren Elliott “Right now, it’s one-way traffic, with almost three times as much travel goi...

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Greece opens to tourists, anxious to move on from crisis season

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April 20, 2021920 Views

Greece began opening to tourists on Monday with few bookings but hopes for a better season to help make up for a 2020 devastated by the coronavirus pandemic. On Rhodes island, where most visitors are from abroad, hoteliers are scrubbing, polishing and painting in anticipation of a make-or-break year. “We’re preparing the hotel in order to start as soon as the government gives us the green light,” said George Tselios, general manager of Sun Beach Hotel, whose customers are from Scandinavia, Germany, Austria and Britain. Greece will formally open on May 14 but starting Monday, tourists from the European Union, the United States, Britain, Serbia, Israel and the United Arab Emirates will not quarantine if they are vaccinated or test negative for COVID-19. Sand hills are formed in ...

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“Another Day in Paradise” highlights tourism potential of Valley

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April 19, 2021432 Views

In order to promote the various Tourism potentials of Jammu & Kashmir and to address the various opportunities in Travel, Tourism & Hospitality in the Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir the Ministry of Tourism, Government of India & Department of Tourism, Government Of Jammu & Kashmir in association with FICCI (Knowledge Partner), and IGTA organised a unique networking platform ‘Tapping the Tourism Potential of Kashmir: Another Day in Paradise’ recently at Srinagar. The event received participation from who’s who from the Travel, Tourism & Hospitality sector, key Industry stakeholders and Policy makers from Kashmir and various parts of India. A special event of one to one B2B meetings was also organized among key industry stake holders from Travel, Touris...

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Mysuru and Umaid Bhawan Palaces ranked amongst the world’s most loved

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April 19, 2021598 Views

Mysuru Palace in Mysuru and Umaid Bhawan Palace at Jodhpur have been ranked among the most loved Royal palaces in world. They ranked 20 of the most well-known royal palaces, or former royal palaces, on four criteria to determine which is the most loved by the public. The criteria judged were: average TripAdvisor rating, global monthly searches, hashtags on Instagram, and pins on Pinterest. Each criteria was marked out of a maximum of 25 points to create a total score out of 100. Versailles palace, Paris suburbs, France The results are as follows: Palace Location Score out of 100 #1 Buckingham Palace London, England 80 #2 Neuschwanstein Palace Bavaria, Germany 78 #3 Winter Palace St. Petersburg, Russia&nb...

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Australia in no hurry to reopen borders

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April 18, 2021618 Views

Quarantine free travel with New Zealand starts from Monday Australia is no hurry to reopen its international borders and risk the country’s nearly coronavirus-free lifestyle, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Sunday. Australia closed its borders to all non-citizens and non-residents in March 2020 and has been permitting only limited international arrivals in recent months, mainly its citizens returning from abroad. FILE PHOTO: A tourist takes a photograph on their iPhone of the Sydney Harbour Bridge at sunset on a spring day in central Sydney, Australia. REUTERS/Steven Saphore The border closure, together with snap lockdowns, swift contact tracking and high community compliance with health measures, have made Australia one of the world’s most successful countries in curbin...

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UNWTO, Facebook partner to leverage digital marketing to restart tourism

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April 18, 2021692 Views

The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) and Facebook have partnered to help global destinations make use of the power of digital marketing as they look to welcome tourists back safely. Over the past year, the United Nations specialized agency for tourism has been supporting its Member States on a series of initiatives relating to market intelligence and marketing. Now, as tourism begins to restart in some parts of the world, a series of special sessions were held jointly with Facebook to deliver a range of key insights into how the effective use of digital marketing can help destinations gain a competitive advantage in the challenging months ahead. Three sessions, one each in English, Spanish and French, welcomed participants from 30 countries. The sessions focused on Facebook an...

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IATA and Eurofins partner to boost travel with testing

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April 16, 20211575 Views

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced an agreement with Eurofins to incorporate its worldwide COVID-19 testing network into IATA Travel Pass. Eurofins is a leader in bio-analytical testing with 800 laboratories across 50 countries. As part of the partnership, Eurofins’ dedicated COVID-19 portfolio encompassing multiple test types and hundreds of COVID-19 sampling stations globally will be made available through the IATA Travel Pass. Amid the pandemic, coronavirus testing is required for most international travel. As part of the IATA Travel Pass initiative, Eurofins laboratories will provide secure, verified test results to travelers using the app. This result is checked against the IATA Travel Pass registry of national entry requirements to produce an “OK to ...

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All ASI monuments including Taj and Qutub Minar closed again

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April 15, 20211111 Views

With COVID situation almost going out of hand in the country, the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has closed all centrally protected monuments, museums and sites including Taj Mahal, Qutub Minar and Humayun's tomb with immediate effect till May 15. Union culture ministry announced this on Thursday. Dealing a big blow to tourism industry, an order to this effect was issued by the ASI and it was tweeted by Culture Minister Prahlad Patel this evening. "Due to the prevailing COVID situation, it has been decided to close all centrally protected monuments, sites and museums under the ASI with immediate effect and till May 15 or until further orders," the ASI said. These include 3,693 monuments and 50 museums. They include 143 which are ticketed sites in the country. !fu...