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Environmental sustainability must be a key focus area for cruise operators

February 24, 2021976 Views

COVID-19 has strengthened a recent shift in consumer sentiment, with the pandemic further increasing concerns around environmental damage caused by the tourism sector. Cruise operators could be at risk of losing custom to other holiday/transport types if they do not act fast and place environmental sustainability at the forefront of new developments, says GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company. Gus Gardner, Travel and Tourism Analyst at GlobalData, comments: “GlobalData’s Week 11 COVID-19 Recovery Consumer Survey*, reveals that as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, 31% of global respondents have made reducing their environmental footprint slightly/significantly more important than before, with a further 12% making it their top priority. This significant shift in consum...

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Holiday bookings soar as Britons hope for travel restart

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February 24, 2021703 Views

Britons rushed to book foreign holidays after the government laid out plans to gradually relax coronavirus restrictions, giving battered airlines and tour operators hope that a bumper summer could come to their rescue. Bookings flooded in on Monday evening and Tuesday following the government’s announcement on Monday that travel could restart from mid-May, with Spain and Greece the most popular destinations, airlines and holiday companies said. However, travel industry is yet not happy with the announced plans, as it feels that delaying the return of international travel until at least mid-May, could mean the Travel & Tourism sector simply won’t survive and struggling SMEs will just disappear. EasyJet said that bookings on its flights from Britain for this summer had jumped b...

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Tee off in Thailand as tourists arrive for golf quarantine

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February 24, 2021716 Views

Thailand has welcomed golfers from South Korea for the country’s new golf quarantine programme in a bid to boost tourism revenue hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic. About 40 South Koreans are undergoing quarantine at Artitaya Country Club, an hour north of Bangkok, where they were tested on arrival last week, Tourism Authority of Thailand deputy governor, Thapanee Kiatphaibool, has said. Thailand has been successful in controlling coronavirus cases, but strict border controls have decimated its tourism industry, with revenues dropping by 83% as it went from 40 million visitors in 2019 to 6.7 million last year. The golf quarantine programme is drawing only a small fraction of around 250,000 South Korean golfers who visited Thailand in 2019, but officials hope it will grow at...

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Royal Caribbean sees uptick in future bookings

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February 23, 2021907 Views

Royal Caribbean Group said on Monday it was seeing an uptick in future bookings, following a disastrous year for the cruise operator, as travel enthusiasts look to sail again at a time governments globally have started mass vaccinations. The company’s shares, down 44% last year, soared 9% in morning trading, as Royal Caribbean said it recorded a 30% increase in new bookings since the beginning of the year when compared to November and December. Analysts have also tipped Royal Caribbean and its peers Carnival Corp and Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd to resume voyages gradually in the back half of this year, after the pandemic-triggered months-long halt. Signs of revival are also coming from the fact that Cruise company Carnival is stuffing its face again with a $1 billion e...

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One of the world’s largest church won’t allow more than 15 at a time for mass

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February 23, 2021856 Views

Brussels’ cavernous basilica is one of the largest churches in the world but COVID-19 rules allow only 15 people at a time to attend mass there, the same limit applied to much smaller religious venues in Belgium. Dozens of worshippers of different religions and clergy demonstrated in the centre of the Belgian capital on Sunday calling for a change to the rules. Parishioners, who can only gather in a group of maximum of 15 people at the same time in the building, attend a mass in the Belgium's national Koekelberg basilica, one of the largest churches in the world, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Brussels, Belgium February 21, 2021. REUTERS/Johnny Cotton “Here, more than in any other building in Belgium, this law is an incredible absurdity,” said the Catholic ba...

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Russia opens tourist route reconstructing Romanov family’s last journey

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February 22, 20211020 Views

Tourists curious about Russia’s imperial past can now ride on a special train running through the Ural mountains along the route travelled by some members of the royal family before their execution in 1918. The train making the three-hour journey between Yekaterinburg and Alapayevsk is equipped with a royal family-themed wagon where tourists can try on clothing similar to that worn by Russian nobility in the early 20th century. Upon arriving in the town, tourists are taken by bus to places of importance in the lives of the royal family members who were killed there. “On the night of July 18, 1918, eight people were thrown in here alive,” priest Father Serafim said, pointing to a snow-covered mineshaft. “These included Grand Duchess Elizaveta Fyodorovna (Romanova)”. ...

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Low-cost airlines will lead post-COVID recovery

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February 22, 2021646 Views

-Low-cost carriers’ aggressive cost-cutting will give them an even larger cost advantage than pre-pandemic.-87% of consumers are ‘extremely’, ‘quite’ or ‘slightly’ concerned about their personal finances, and low-cost carrier’s low fares are well-positioned to meet this need. -Low-cost carrier’s ability to quickly respond to pent up demand will pay off. The low-cost airline model will lead post-COVID recovery and help revitalize demand. Frugal cost-cutting measures taken and operational responsiveness will see these carriers move quickly to absorb pent-up demand and capitalize on any opportunities ahead of other high-cost model airlines, says GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company. The COVID-19 pandemic has amplified consumer concerns around personal finances. Global...

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Ziggurat hopes to bring together several faiths – and hopefully lure more visitors

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February 22, 2021772 Views

Pope Francis is due to hold an inter-religious prayer service at the ancient Mesopotamian site of Ur when he visits Iraq next week - an event local archeologists hope will draw renewed attention to the place revered as the birthplace of Abraham. Popular with Western visitors in the 1970s and 1980s, Ur is scarcely visited today after decades of war and political instability shattered Iraq’s international tourism industry. The coronavirus crisis now also keeps local tourists away. A general view of the ancient archeological site of Ur, traditionally believed to be the birthplace of Abraham, ahead of the planned visit of Pope Francis, in Ur near Nassiriya, Iraq February 18, 2021. REUTERS/Mohammed Aty Located about 300 km (200 miles) south of the capital Baghdad, the site comprises a...

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Train services resume in Kashmir Valley after 11 months

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February 22, 2021433 Views

Train services resumed in the Kashmir Valley on Monday after remaining suspended for around 11 months due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Train services have been resumed partially between Baramulla and Banihal. "A dry run of 137 km was carried out on Sunday between Baramulla and Banihal," an official of the Northern Railways said. "In the partial resumption of operations, the service will have two runs daily between Banihal and Baramulla," the official said. The train service from Banihal in the Jammu division to Baramulla in Kashmir division has 17 stations in between. !function(e,t,c,a){if(!e.fwn&&(a="fwn_script",n=e.fwn=function(){ n.callMethod?n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments) },e._fwn||(e._fwn=n),n.queue=[],!t.getElementById(a))){var d=...

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गुड मॉर्निंग मिनिकॉय

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February 22, 20211442 Views

लक्षद्वीप भारत की उन जगहों में से हैं जहां आम सैलानी बहुत कम जाते हैं, लेकिन यहां की खूबसूरती अद्भुत है और कई मायनों में तो भारत के कई लोकप्रिय सैलानी स्थलों से भी कहीं ज्यादा शाम को केरल में कोच्चि (एर्णाकुलम) से रवाना हुआ जहाज अगले दिन सुबह मिनीकॉय की जेटी पर पहुंचने वाला है। सुबह के साढ़े 4-5 बजे होंगे। डेक पर कुछ ही लोग हैं। तभी अरब सागर में दूर से कुछ टिमटिमाता हुआ दिखता है, और फिर वह रोशनी की एक लकीर बन जाती है। आकाश में लालिमा फैलती है। हल्के उजियारे में वह लकीर एक द्वीप में तब्दील होती जाती है और फिर सामने होता है लक्षद्वीप समूह का एक सुंदर द्वीप मिनिकॉय। गुड मॉर्निंग मिनीकॉय! समुद्र में सूरज डूबे या वहां से उगे, उसकी खूबसूरती का जवाब नहीं होता। फोटोः राजु कुमार/आवारा मुसाफिर जहाज पर गहमागहमी बढ़ जाती है। कुछ लोग डेक पर आते हैं। इधर-उधर दौड़-दौड़ कर समुद्र में उगते सूर...