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65% Indians intend to travel for leisure in 2021

April 2, 20211131 Views

InterMiles Consumer Sentiment Index reveals people are craving to break away from monotony In times of current pandemic things are changing very fast and even when we are going for vaccination at rapid pace, increase in numbers of active infections over the last fortnight has caught everyone by surprise. But it has been quite a long past 12 months and people are eager to break free. They are craving for travel. We have already passed the first quarter of the calendar year and time for traditional summer vacations is very close. Therefore—although in uncertain terms—but it is time to see what people expected of a new year. A survey has revealed the travel wishes of the travellers. InterMiles, a leading loyalty and rewards programme, has published results of their second travel...

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Turning military ammo boxes into art panels

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April 2, 20211547 Views

Visiting a military base in 2014, Ukrainian artist and icon painter Oleksandr Klymenko was struck by how much the bottom and cover of a wooden ammunition box could resemble a Christian icon panel. He borrowed one of the boxes from the base and painted a Byzantine icon featuring the Virgin Mary holding the Christ Child on its cover. Klymenko said the icon looked at least 800 years old. Ukrainian artist Sofia Atlantova is pictured at a studio in Kyiv, Ukraine March 26, 2021. Instead of using regular wooden panels, artists Sofia Atlantova and Oleksandr Klymenko paint icons on the covers and bottoms of ammunition boxes brought from the eastern Donbass region, the epicentre of Ukraine's conflict with Russian-backed separatists. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich The experiment led Klymenko and his...

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Kayaking down a snowy mountain at 100km/h

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April 2, 20211541 Views

Spaniard Aniol Serrasolses tackles 25km descent before performing a world-first waterfall double kickflip Human adventure has no limits, and it keeps finding new challenges and crossing new limits. Many of these are feats, on which we ourselves as humans can’t feel any less amazed about. Many of them are ones, we didn’t know, even existed as a challenge to be overcome. But here they are… Adventurer Aniol Serrasolses recently travelled at nearly 100km/h down a high-speed snowy descent, scythed across the forest floor and ended with a world-first flip off a waterfall. The Spanish kayaker pulled off the feat over a 25-kilometre descent on Chile’s Villarrica volcano. Aniol Serrasolses is used to testing his supreme whitewater kayaking skills in stunning and dangerous locations. This ...

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Swiss robots use UV light to zap viruses aboard passenger planes

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April 1, 20211311 Views

A robot armed with virus-killing ultraviolet light is being tested on Swiss airplanes, yet another idea aiming to restore passenger confidence and spare the travel industry more pandemic pain. UVeya, a Swiss start-up, is conducting the trials of the robots with Dubai-based airport services company Dnata inside Embraer jets from Helvetic Airways, a charter airline owned by Swiss billionaire Martin Ebner. A robot developed by Swiss company UVeya armed with virus-killing ultraviolet light is seen during tests aboard an Embraer airplane of Helvetic Airways, as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, at Zurich Airport in Zurich, Switzerland March 31, 2021. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann Aircraft makers still must certify the devices and are studying the impact their UV ligh...

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Mini-break capital Prague faces tourist-free Easter, yet again

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April 1, 20211270 Views

Jakub Ricica’s traditional Czech pub ‘Deminka’, located just behind the National Museum and a short stroll from dozens of hotels, is a magnet for the flocks of tourists who descend on Prague every year for the Easter break. But for a second year running, the wooden chairs sit atop the tables, the beer mugs are stacked on the bar and the Pilsner taps remain dry ahead of what would normally be one of the biggest money-making weekends of the year. “Easter is usually the first weekend in Prague where things start to get really busy, and then it just keeps going,” said Ricica, who estimates that tourists generate about 60 percent of the revenue for his pub, which was founded in 1882. A bartender drafts a plastic bottle of beer as the Deminka pub remains closed due to the coronavirus d...

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Cruise ships to be kept out of Venice lagoon

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April 1, 20211226 Views

Italy’s government has ruled that large cruise ships and container vessels must not pass close to Venice’s historic centre and should instead dock in a different location to preserve the famed lagoon. A decree approved late on Wednesday called for public consultations on building a terminal outside the lagoon where passenger vessels over 40,000 tons and container ships can berth without passing in front of Saint Mark’s square. FILE PHOTO: MSC Magnifica cruise ship passes in the Giudecca Canal in Venice, Italy June 9, 2019. REUTERS/Manuel Silvestri In the meantime, large boats must dock at the industrial Marghera Port, far from the Grand Canal. “Anyone who has visited Venice in recent years has been shocked to see these ships, hundreds of metres long and as tall as apartment bu...

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IATA says travel pass app to launch on Apple mid-April

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April 1, 2021545 Views

Global airline industry body IATA said on Wednesday a digital travel pass for COVID-19 test results and vaccine certificates would be launched on the Apple platform in mid-April. The digital travel pass, currently in the testing phase, had been planned to be launched by the end of March. IATA Regional Vice President for Africa and the Middle East Kamil Alawadhi said it was expected to launch on the Apple platform around April 15, and later for the Android platform. “But the application will only achieve its success once airlines, different countries, airports adopt it,” Alawadhi said. UK-based carrier Virgin Atlantic said on Friday it would trial the IATA app on its London to Barbados route from April 16. Barbados has said it will accept the pass at its border, one of the ...

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Calls for rapid testing on departure to revive international travel

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March 31, 20211174 Views

New research backs rapid antigen testing for safe and efficient restart of Air Travel Rapid testing on departure at airports is the key to unlocking international travel, says the World Travel & Tourism Council in its submission to the UK government’s Global Travel Taskforce. Meanwhile, The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has also urged governments to accept best-in-class rapid antigen tests in fulfillment of COVID -19 testing requirements following the publication of new research by OXERA and Edge Health. The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC), which represents the global Travel & Tourism private sector, has been at the forefront of global efforts to revive safe travel in the COVID-19 era. It has said that while vaccine rollout around the world is to b...

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Tourist arrivals down 87% in January

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March 31, 20211662 Views

UNWTO calls for stronger coordination and urges Europe to lead the way in tourism’s restart The devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on global tourism has carried on into 2021, with new data showing an 87% fall in international tourist arrivals in January as compared to 2020. The outlook for the rest of the year remain cautious as the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) continues to call for stronger coordination on travel protocols between countries to ensure the safe restart of tourism and avoid another year of massive losses for the sector. Following a difficult end to 2020, global tourism suffered further setbacks in the beginning of the year as countries tightened travel restrictions in response to new virus outbreaks. According to the latest edition of the UNWTO Worl...

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Bloggers end Kerala round to tell exhilarating stories

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March 30, 20211108 Views

‘My First Trip 2021’ drive to woo tourists in post-pandemic era concludes in Kochi A core group of bloggers from around the country concluded their travel across Kerala to generate their experiential accounts over new media as part of ‘My First Trip 2021’ campaign organized by Kerala Tourism to bring back tourists in post-Covid times. The video-centric campaign by young influencers drew to a close in this coastal city on Monday evening, turning a new leaf in Kerala Tourism’s efforts to enable travelers re-focus their attention on the famed destinations in God’s Own Country. The ‘My First Trip 2021’ initiative under the Kerala Blog Express saw its ten participants on specially-branded cars undertake different itineraries for five days before converging here to share their expe...