Vogue – Online

An antithesis to mass tourism, slow travel is an opportunity to recalibrate the way we travel. Slow travel is intentional, immersive and experience oriented, embodying #Travel Deeper, Neeti Mehra, sustainability consultant and founder of BeejLiving, tells us. It is transformational; we look to forge meaningful connections with the destinations we travel to and the strangers we meet on our journey, while rediscovering ourselves. In the 1980s, when an international fast-food chain opened in Rome, Italy, a mass protest began against it in order to preserve the regional cuisine and local farming. What came to be known as the Slow Movement, also gave birth to its offshoot, the concept of slow travel; the kind of tourism that respects ...

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In line with the calibrated resumption of economic activities in Singapore, safe cruises will be piloted from November 2020 with enhanced safety protocols for two cruise lines that are homeported here. To provide assurance for safe cruising, the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) is developing a mandatory Cruise Safe certification programme, which sets out stringent hygiene and safety measures throughout the passenger journey from prior to boarding, to after disembarkation. The pilot cruises will be roundtrips with no ports of call, sailing at a reduced capacity of up to 50 percent and only open to Singapore residents.

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The UAE went into a lockdown period in March, with Dubai, the country’s most popular tourism destination, reopening doors in July. At the end of lockdown, online search levels for Dubai were at 53 percent, which increased to 75 percent through August, and weve seen that growing since over the course of September, said Al Marri.

Reuters – Online

Malaysia Airlines will have to shut down if its lessors decide not to back its latest restructuring plan, the chief executive of the airlines parent group was quoted as saying on Saturday.

Devdis Course – Online

Singapore and Indonesia have agreed to reopen borders between the two countries for essential business and official travel after they were shut to curb the spread of COVID19. Indonesia has recorded over 333,000 cases, the second highest rate in Southeast Asia behind the Philippines, and its capital Jakarta has been subject to strict social curbs. Singapore, meanwhile, is seeing just a handful of cases daily.

Hamsanews – Online

Indonesia has turn out to be the primary signatory of the Framework Conference on Tourism Ethics, a landmark instrument created to make sure international tourism is truthful, inclusive, extra clear, and works for everybody. The ceremony, hosted by the World Tourism

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The Golden Week tourism and spending figures indicated domestic consumption was recovering well, especially as consumers engaged in revenge buying to make up for the previous months when they were unable to travel, she said. With many Chinese tourists unable to travel abroad due to global travel restrictions, those who previously travelled to Hong Kong and South Korea for duty-free shopping turned to the southern Chinese island of Hainan instead, spending 530 million yuan ($78 million) at duty free shops during the first five days of the holiday, according to a report by Chinese ...