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Pandemic Special: Countries that have opened up for touristsedit
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Dubai Dubai has a number of strict protocols in place Tourism in Dubai has opened up as well, but the country has strict COVID19 protocols in place. Visitors must produce a COVID19 negative certificate, which is not older than 72 hours before departure. All hotels in the UAE city are currently running at 70% capacity. However, you cant travel if you have been to South Africa or Nigeria within 14 days of departure to Dubai.
China holiday train travel down nearly 70 per centedit
Telangana Today – Online Web
Beijing: Railway journeys in China during the usually frenetic Lunar New Year holiday travel rush are down by almost 70 per cent amid calls for people to stay where they are to avoid a new outbreak of Covid19. The China State Railway Group on Saturday reported 52.33 million passenger trips from Jan 28 to Feb 11 a decline of 68.8 per cent from the same period last year.
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Israel Plans To Reopen Restaurants In March, Restart Tourism With Cyprusedit
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Israel plans to reopen restaurants around March 9 and restart tourism with Cyprus as part of a gradual return to normality thanks to a COVID19 vaccination campaign, officials said on Sunday. With more than 41% of Israelis having received at least one shot of Pfizer Incs vaccine, Israel has said it will partially reopen hotels and gyms on Feb. 23 to those fully inoculated or deemed immune after recovering from COVID19.
In a pandemichit world, India wont rush to reopen doors to international touristsedit
Free Press Journal – Online Web
The government is in no mood to rush to reopen doors to international tourists at a time when Corona is rampant in some parts of the world. Top bureaucrats of the Tourism Ministry articulated this standpoint of the government on the concluding day of the tenth convention of the Association of Domestic Tour Operators of India.
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Hong Kong to invest $12.9 billion annually on infrastructure projectsedit
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AP Hong Kong to invest $ 12.9 billion annually in infrastructure projects The Hong Kong government will invest more than HK $ 100 billion ($ 12.9 billion) annually in infrastructure projects over the next several years, Finance Secretary Paul Chan said on Sunday.