Competition
Arbitrary Detentions Of Foreigners Roots Deep Fear Against Travelling To China: Reportedit
Republic World – Online Web
The arbitrary detention of a handful of foreigners visiting China in recent years have rooted a deep fear among some people against visiting the East Asian country especially as the relations between Bejing and the Western nations have deteriorated, reported CNN.
Industry
ITB Berlin and IPK International: After dramatic slump, high chances for a fast recovery of tourism industry Travel And Tour Worldedit
Travel and Tour World – Online Web
ITB Berlin and IPK International: After dramatic slump, high chances for a fast recovery of tourism industry Published on : Friday, March 12, 2021 Following strong growth rates over the last 10 years the tourism industry, a flagship of the economy, has experienced a dramatic slump and is one of the worsthit sectors in the year of the pandemic.
Croatia won the ITB Medical Tourism Destination Awardedit
Travel and Tour World – Online Web
This year at 2021 ITB Berlin NOW, Croatia won the ITB medical tourism destination award. In recent years, Croatia has made a name for itself as a quality medical tourism destination. Out of the one million people who visited the country in 2019, 500,000 came for medical reasons, Draghicchio said. And even during 2020, the year of the crisis, the country weathered the situation comparatively well. At 50 million overnights, the figures for 2020 were 50 per cent of 2019, a record year.
UNESCOs Sustainable Cultural Tourism Strategy for Southern Africa gets thumps upedit
India Education Diary – Online Web
Over 60 stakeholders who attended the presentation of the UNESCO Sustainable Cultural Tourism Strategy (STCS) for Southern Africa on 8 March 2021 agreed that the strategy was well elaborated and captured the most important elements to support cultural tourism in the region.
Rude Travel by Vir Sanghvi: The Maldives returns to luxuryedit
Hindustan Times – Online Web
The pandemic changed all that. As Western countries imposed restrictions on travel and people stopped travelling anyway out of fear, the Maldives shut down all tourism. But then, as Covid cases spread far less quickly than expected, authorities came to the conclusion that the nature of the country thousands of separate islands meant that transmission rates would stay low.
Australian government offers halfprice flights to local touristsedit
English Mathrubhumi – Online Web
Almost one million Australians will be able to enjoy halfprice flights to domestic holiday destinations, under a government plan announced Thursday to boost tourism as Covid border closures keep international travellers out. Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the government would spend Aus$1.2 billion (US$929,000 million) to subsidise 800,000 flights to areas outside major cities that were heavily dependent on international tourists.
Thailand celebrates Elephant Day, hoping tourists will returnedit
Devdis Course – Online Web
Thailand held a fruit banquet for dozens of elephants in the ancient capital Ayutthaya on Saturday, continuing an annual event that has been a big draw for foreign tourists in the hope they will return soon and revive the key tourism industry.
Hope some time this year: Australia working on travel bubble with Singaporeedit
Hindustan Times – Online Web
Australia is working with Singapore to create a travel bubble between the two nations as early as July, officials said Sunday, in an effort to restart tourism and travel put on hold by Covid19. Early in the pandemic Australia effectively closed its international border to slow the spread of the coronavirus, with noncitizens banned from visiting except in special circumstances.