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Tourism’s recovery strategies highlighted at WTO event

March 27, 2021502 Views

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) partnered with the UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) to lead a conversation on what the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on global tourism means for development across the Asia-Pacific region. Held as part of the World Trade Organization’s Aid-for-Trade Stocktaking Event, the special session brought key sector representatives together to assess how the sector can be transformed to drive recovery and build sustainability. According to the latest data from UNWTO, the pandemic led to a 73% fall globally in international tourist arrivals in 2020. The drop has been even steeper in Asia-Pacific where ADB estimates a decline of over 80% for 2020, as many Asian countries continued to impose strict travel restrictions. This sudden fall has placed the sector’s ...

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Vaccinate SIDs to restart tourism kickstart recovery, UNWTO urges

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March 27, 20218767 Views1

The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) is calling for the international community to show solidarity with Small Island Developing States by ensuring they have access to COVID-19 vaccinations. With tourism a leading employer and economic pillar for many of the SIDS, the United Nations specialized agency has stressed that pledges to ensure ‘nobody is left behind’ in the recovery phase of the crisis must be backed up with firm actions. Given the relatively small size of the populations of the SIDS, the cost of mass vaccinations will be minimal compared to the potential benefits of restarting tourism. Moreover, given tourism’s wide value chain and proven ability to create opportunity for all, the impact of rolling out mass vaccinations and allowing tourism to restart, will go beyond econom...

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Intra-regional tourism crucial for ASEAN tourism revival

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March 26, 20211140 Views

Due to an abundance of low-cost connectivity and an increased preference for travel closer to home, the intra-regional tourism will play a key role in revitalizing the ASEAN countries’ tourism economies, says GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company. GlobalData’s latest report, ‘Tourism Destination Market Insight- ASEAN (2021)’, reveals that in 2019, 44.3 million tourists traveled between the ASEAN countries. The intra-ASEAN travel is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5% from 2019 to 2024 and reach 56.6 million by 2024. Given the high level of growth, intra-regional travel could be key to the region’s recovery from the impact of COVID-19. The virus caused an 36.9% year-over-year decrease in intra-regional travel in 2020 to a low of 27.9 million arrival...

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Thailand approves quarantine waiver for tourists

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March 26, 20211119 Views

Thai authorities on Friday agreed to allow foreigners inoculated against the coronavirus to travel to its biggest holiday island without undergoing quarantine, and announced a new order for five million more doses of AstraZeneca’s vaccine. With arrival numbers plummeting this past year, tourism-reliant Thailand is racing to secure vaccines for its population and reopen the country to foreigners in a pilot project for vaccine passports. FILE PHOTO: A person is seen in water near a beach which is usually full of tourists, amid fear of coronavirus in Phuket, Thailand March 10, 2020. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun “If we can inoculate 50% to 60% of the population we can open the country safely and move the economy and tourism forward,” senior health official Kiattiphum Wongraijit said. Its ...

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Hopes resurface as cruise lines get ready to sail again

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March 26, 2021349 Views

Cruise world is in midst of hopes of sailing again, despite mounting debts and lingering uncertainties. With vaccination against COVID19 gathering some steam, cruise lines seem to have found a new lease of life. Few of them have already announced plans for sailing. Royal Caribbean cruise line and its subsidiary Celebrity Cruises have announced to start sailing from Bahamas and St. Martin, respectively, by resuming their North America cruise services. All crew and adult passengers will be required to show the proof of vaccination against COVID-19. This definitive restart is a milestone for North America cruising, after a year-long halt due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As soon as the news broke out, it was immediately there in the conversations. A leading data and analytics company G...

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Masterpieces of Venetian glassmaking on legendary show

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March 26, 2021541 Views

Latest edition of Glasstress premieres at Boca Raton in Florida with 34 new works Some of the world's leading contemporary artists are invited to breathe new life into centuries-old glassmaking in Venice ― maestros of glassblowing from the legendary Berengo Studio residency help artists manifest their visions “There is every reason this year to have a world view,” says Irvin Lippman, the Boca Raton Museum of Art’s Executive Director, as South Florida boldly ushers in the new year with the national premiere of Glasstress 2021 Boca Raton. “Three years in the making, with 2020 being such a challenging year to coordinate an international exhibition of this size and scope, the effort serves as an important reassurance that art is an essential and enduring part of humanity. Ai Weiwei a...

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Less flights contributed to lesser accidents but more all accident rate

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March 25, 20211118 Views

IATA Releases 2020 Safety Report, Details Airline Safety Performance The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced the publication of the 2020 Safety Report and released data for the 2020 safety performance of the commercial airline industry. -The total number of accidents decreased from 52 in 2019 to 38 in 2020.-The total number of fatal accidents decreased from 8 in 2019 to 5 in 2020.-The all accident rate was 1.71 accidents per million flights. This is higher than the 5-year (2016-2020) average rate which is 1.38 accidents per million flights.-IATA member airlines’ accident rate was 0.83 per million flights, which was an improvement over the 5-year average rate of 0.96.-Total flight operations reduced by 53% to 22 million in 2020.-Fatality risk remained unchanged c...

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First day, First show: Asia’s biggest Tulip Garden now open

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March 25, 20211732 Views

Asia's biggest Tulip Garden at Siraj Bagh in Srinagar, Kashmir is now open for the year. Normally the garden opens with the start of April. But this year it has opened a week earlier owing to favourable weather conditions. We can also say that because the winter winded up a bit early and it brought the spring before time in the valley, hence the tulips also started blooming early. Hence the garden at Siraj Bagh on the banks of the Dal Lake was thrown open for the tourists on 25th March. Not all the bulbs have bloomed, still some to go. It would be full by the start of April. It is indeed once in a lifetime chance to see more than a million tulips of different hues and shades blooming at a place which we call as paradise on earth. https://youtu.be/TXok0Ffvb8Q Advisor to the Lieuten...

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Global Travel & Tourism sector suffered a loss of $4.5 trillion in 2020 due to COVID-19

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March 25, 2021700 Views

-Travel & Tourism sector’s contribution to GDP plunged a staggering 49.1% in 2020-Job retention schemes look to have saved millions of jobs - but the threat remains-Swift action could see lost jobs and GDP contribution return by 2022 The World Travel & Tourism Council’s annual Economic Impact Report (EIR) on Thursday reveals the full devastating impact of COVID-19 had on the global Travel & Tourism sector last year, which suffered a massive loss of almost US$4.5 trillion. The annual EIR from the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC), which represents the global Travel & Tourism private sector, shows the sector’s contribution to GDP dropped a staggering 49.1%, this compared to the overall global economy which dropped by just 3.7% last year. Vast losses run up d...

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Kerala Tourism launches ‘My First Trip 2021’ campaign

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March 25, 20211476 Views

Kerala Tourism on Thursday launched a pioneering travel initiative led by ten influencers from around the country who will carry out a new-media campaign to attract domestic tourists in the post-Covid era. Rani George, IAS, Principal Secretary, Tourism, flagged off the Kerala Blog Express, titled ‘My First Trip 2021’, which is slated to conclude on March 29. The influencers will tread different itineraries for six nights and five days, facilitating production of exclusive contents for Kerala Tourism. The images, videos and literature generated by them will be shared on social-media platforms as #MyFirstTrip. They will announce to the world that destinations in God’s Own Country continue to be open for tourists. Kerala Tourism Director V.R. Krishna Teja, IAS, and Biju. B...