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UK ‘red list’ dashes Turkish tourism hopes

September 3, 2021470 Views

When Britain announced Turkey would stay on its “red list” of travel destinations last week, Onur Arican decided to close his boutique hotel on the Aegean coast early this year rather than wait out a summer season derailed by COVID-19 and wildfires. In 2019, Britain was Turkey’s third-biggest source of tourists with 2.5 million visitors that year, most of whom flocked to the Turquoise Coast near Bodrum and Marmaris, where Arican runs his 19-room Mavi Yengec hotel. FILE PHOTO: A staff member stands next to empty tables as cafes and restaurants reopen after closing down for months amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Istanbul, Turkey. REUTERS/Dilara Senkaya This year the number of British guests was down by two thirds compared to 2019, Arican said, and he was forced...

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WTTC calls for an end to the discredited travel traffic light system

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August 31, 2021862 Views

The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) has called upon the UK government to finally bring an end to the widely discredited travel traffic light system. The call comes after the latest update which saw just seven countries added to the green list, with Thailand, a popular winter sun destination for holiday starved Brits, and Montenegro, added to the red list. Turkey, widely expected to be able to welcome British visitors stayed in no-go red, seriously damaging its travel sector. FILE PHOTO: A traveller wearing a face mask walks at the Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport, as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in London, Britain. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls WTTC, which represents the global Travel & Tourism private sector, says both consumers and Travel ...

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Arabian nights buzz: staycations boost Saudi tourism

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August 27, 20211490 Views

When U.S. celebrity chef David Burke opened his second restaurant in Riyadh earlier in August, hudreds of Saudi men and women packed the venue to enjoy his dishes and fruity "mocktails" to a DJ's mix of Arabic and Western pop. While Saudis usually escape the desert country over the summer when temperatures can reach over 50 degrees Celsius, the coronavirus pandemic has seen them flock to restaurants and cafes in the open-air mall The Zone, bolstering Saudi Arabia's consumer sector. Saudi women sit at David Burke's restaurant, in The Zone restaurant complex, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia August 25, 2021. REUTERS/Ahmed Yosri Noura, 21, a Saudi hostess at one such upscale restaurant said she has been booking up tables weeks in advance. "Before, that would have been impossible in August...

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US must approve AstraZeneca vaccine to rescue transatlantic travel

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August 24, 20211411 Views

The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) has called upon the U.S. government to urgently speed up approval of the UK’s AstraZeneca vaccine to help restore vital transatlantic travel. The Centre for Disease Control (CDC), the main health authority in the U.S., this week approved the Pfizer vaccine, however it still does not currently recognise AstraZeneca as an approved COVID-19 vaccine. Even if the Biden Administration allows borders to reopen, the CDC’s non-recognition of AstraZeneca will be a significant barrier to transatlantic travel between the UK and the U.S. FILE PHOTO: Vials with AstraZeneca's coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine are seen at the vaccination centre in the Newcastle Eagles Community Arena, in Newcastle upon Tyne, Britain, January 30, 2021. REUTERS/Le...

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Turkey hopes for British tourists as German bookings fall

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August 24, 2021338 Views

Turkey's tourist sector is pinning its hopes on Britain removing it from a COVID-19 travel red list later this week to help it recover from the pandemic, a spate of wildfires, and Germany's designation of Turkey as high risk. While Turkish tourism has seen a strong rebound from last year, with foreign visitor arrivals for July jumping fourfold to 4.36 million, it remains well below pre-pandemic levels. FILE PHOTO: A staff member stands next to empty tables as cafes and restaurants reopen after closing down for months amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Istanbul, Turkey. REUTERS/Dilara Senkaya Many hotels in the southern Aegean region, which rely heavily on British tourists, may close by the end of August if Britain does not remove Turkey from its red list, touris...

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Advanced technology can save leisure and tourism

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August 19, 2021799 Views

Of the many sectors in the global economy, leisure, sport and tourism are three ‘patients’ that have struggled longest to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. Tourism’s suffering earns almost daily bedside bulletins, the latest being France moving to the UK’s amber list – enabling fully vaccinated people to avoid quarantine - only for this breakthrough to be marred by President Macron’s new ‘COVID Passport’ scheme, causing a new chaos in the French tourist industry. It highlights an all too familiar pattern during the COVID crisis: just as businesses glimpse a chance to bounce back, they then face new obstacles - tourism is still stricken by many curfews and travel restrictions to stop the spread of the virus across the globe. The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) touri...

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Tourism organizations need to target German travelers

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August 18, 2021658 Views

Germany was the largest outbound source market globally in 2020 due to the impact of COVID-19. Several tourism related organizations will now be looking to attract more German travelers in the ‘new normal’ to accelerate recovery. Marketing luxury offerings According to a GlobalData consumer survey, Germany had over a quarter of its respondents earning over €50,000, in terms of their approximate annual household pre-tax income. This is higher than the likes of Belgium, France, and Italy, which are important global source markets. FILE PHOTO: People queue to reach the summit cross on top of the highest German mountain, the Zugspitze, in Grainau near Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Germany August last. REUTERS/Michael Dalder Ralph Hollister, Travel & Tourism Analyst at GlobalData, ...

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Vijayan says Kerala Tourism on path of revival

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August 14, 20211117 Views

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Saturday inaugurated the week-long virtual Onam celebrations organized by the state Tourism Department, noting that the government has initiated effective measures to resume the pandemic-hit tourism activities in a safe and risk-free manner. Stating that the tourism sector of Kerala has showed tremendous resilience by outliving back-to-back crises since 2016, the Chief Minister said “as long as the Covid-19 pandemic prevails we have to live with that situation and develop tourism along with it.” “We have put in place arrangements for revival of tourism in a safe and risk-free manner, where vaccinated people will receive vaccinated tourists. We have also made serious efforts to keep tourism destinations pollution-free, which have yielded go...

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Turkey’s wildfires hit hopes for tourism rebound

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August 7, 2021738 Views

The first cancellations from tourists booked onto one of Ozkan Selcuk's cruises off Turkey's southern coast came when the forests near where he takes visitors turtle-watching caught fire. A year after the global COVID-19 pandemic devastated Turkey's tourism industry, the worst wildfires in living memory along its southern coast have delivered a fresh blow to the sector which makes up some 5% of the Turkish economy. A firefighter tries to extinguish a wildfire near Marmaris, Turkey, August 1, 2021. REUTERS/Umit Bektas File Photo/File Photo Tens of thousands of hectares of forest have been destroyed in 10 days in Mediterranean and Aegean provinces in what President Tayyip Erdogan has called Turkey's worst ever wildfires. Eight people have died and thousands of Turks and tourists ha...

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IoT will have a bigger role to play in post-pandemic travel

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July 22, 2021431 Views

Internet of Things (IoT) technology can help to ease traveler concerns regarding personal health and wellbeing, while allowing travel and tourism companies to collect a wealth of data for a range of internal and external benefits, according to GlobalData. The leading data and analytics company notes that this technology will have a bigger role to play in post-pandemic travel as a result. GlobalData’s latest thematic report, ‘IoT in Travel & Tourism’, states that wearable tech devices at airports and other transport terminals can allow travelers to practice correct social distancing procedures and keep to other health and safety compliance guidelines, which stems the spread of COVID-19 and keeps travelers feeling safe. Ralph Hollister, Travel and Tourism Analyst at GlobalData...