New operating rules for Sri Lanka tourism sector

Sri Lanka is making plans to attract tourists with a raft of new operating rules for hotels, transport and visas to protect locals and...

Safety and cleanliness programmes for tourism

Tourists and health tourists will be on watch for evidence of ever-higher standards of cleanliness. They can also expect to see more technology, from...

Polish children fly to USA for treatment

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Poland and the USA have granted two flights of young patients from Poland to the US for medical...

Malaysian state Penang looks at tourism revival

Malaysian state Penang has set up the Tourism Penang Next Normal Task Force, primarily to collect the opinions of stakeholders in tourism to formulate...

EU states call for common protocol on travel

Nine southern EU countries have called on the EU to come up with a homogenous plan to help tourism mitigate the catastrophic financial impact...

Hong Kong open in July, for Chinese tourists

Hong Kong tourism chief, Dane Cheng says that tourism will be returning back to normal in July, and the destination will be focusing on...

Avivo opens new clinic in Dubai

Avivo Group has opened a beauty enhancement and wellness clinic in Dubai's Box Park. The Dermalase Clinic in Al Wasl offers cosmetic surgery to...

Putting community recovery first

Jeremy Sampson, CEO of the Travel Foundation has questioned whether we really want global tourism to go back to business-as-usual. He points out that...

Restrictions easing in Switzerland

Switzerland has a three-stage easing of restrictions imposed to suppress the COVID-19 pandemic, with some stores and services allowed to reopen from April 27....

Malaysia to target international tourists from September

Tourism Malaysia plans to restart international promotion efforts from this September. In the interim, the focus will be on domestic recovery and ongoing publicity around...