This photo taken on December 8, 2022 shows tourists walking past the recently opened Plantopia complex on the popular tourist street Khaosan Road in Bangkok. (LILLIAN SUWANRUMPHA / AFP) BANGKOK – Thailand received 11.15 million foreign visitors in 2022, a surge from just about 428,000 the previous year when broad travel curbs were in place, […]
This photo taken on June 17, 2020 shows a general shot of empty famous white beach of Boracay Island in central Philippines. (ERNESTO CRUZ / AFP) MANILA – Niko Reyes, his wife, and three boys have spent their four-day vacations on Boracay, a world-renowned island in the Philippines famous for its tropical beaches. Reyes' wife […]
At the G20 Summit in November, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida called on China to lift its COVID-19 pandemic prevention and control measures. Yet on Dec 27, after China adopted provisional measures to step up cross-border travel, Japan introduced discriminatory entry measures targeting arrivals from the Chinese mainland, who must undergo a nucleic acid test […]
In this file photo taken on July 18, 2022, tourists gather and take pictures in the grounds of the Grand Palace in Bangkok. (JACK TAYLOR / AFP) SEOUL/TOKYO/BANGKOK – Japanese shop owners and Thai tour bus operators are among those celebrating China's border reopening as businesses around Asia rekindle ties with the region's largest economy. […]
Chinese tourists visit and take photos at Wat Pho Temple in Bangkok, Thailand on Jan 29, 2017. (PHOTO / XINHUA) SINGAPORE – Southeast Asia's tourist economies are set to be leading beneficiaries of China's scrapping of travel bans as they have steered clear of the COVID-19 tests. Even as the virus tears through its 1.4 […]
Chinese tourists visit and take photos at Wat Pho Temple in Bangkok, Thailand on Jan 29, 2017. (PHOTO / XINHUA) SINGAPORE – Southeast Asia's tourist economies are set to be leading beneficiaries of China's scrapping of travel bans as they have steered clear of the COVID-19 tests. Even as the virus tears through its 1.4 […]
A rickshaw puller carries tourists near Sensoji Buddhist temple at Tokyo's Asakusa district in Tokyo, March 31, 2021. (AP PHOTO / EUGENE HOSHIKO) TOKYO — Japan's easing of a two-year ban on foreign tourists seeks to balance the enormous economic importance of tourism with concerns that travelers would trigger a COVID outbreak, insiders say. The […]
This handout picture taken and released on Nov 11, 2021 by APEC New Zealand shows New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern (center) speaking during her opening address at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation CEO Summit in Wellington. (JEFF TOLLAN / APEC NEW ZEALAND 2021 / AFP) SEOUL / HANOI / YANGON / TOKYO / AHMEDABAD / […]
Unfazed by COVID case numbers, travel and hospitality companies rush to recruit staff A cyclo driver looks for customers along Hoan Kiem Lake in downtown Hanoi on Feb 16, 2022. (NHAC NGUYEN / AFP) Vietnam is preparing to welcome back international tourists from March 15 in a bid to revive its travel-related industries and shore […]
Thai govt orders launch of new tourism campaign to revive sector as spike in COVID-19 cases scupper recovery In this file photo taken on March 12, 2021, traditional Thai dancers wearing protective face shields against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus perform at the Erawan Shrine in Bangkok. (MLADEN ANTONOV / AFP) Thailand’s tourism industry […]
Visitors walk in Manger Square on Christmas eve outside the Church of the Nativity, revered as the site of Jesus Christ's birth, in the biblical city of Bethlehem in the Israeli occupied West Bank on Dec 24, 2021. (ABBAS MOMANI / AFP) BETHLEHEM – Palestinian tourists and pilgrims on Friday gathered at the square near […]
A customer waits for her order from a street food vendor on Khaosan Road in Bangkok, Thailand, Mar 12, 2021. (NICOLAS AXELROD / BLOOMBERG) BANGKOK – Hundreds of vaccinated foreign tourists are scheduled to arrive in Bangkok on Monday, the first wave of visitors to Thailand in 18 months who will not have to undergo […]
Editor's Note: Thanks to China's rapid economic development and rising individual incomes, Chinese tourists have been traveling across the globe and contributing to the local economies. But before the pandemic-induced international restrictions are lifted, some foreign destinations would do better to improve their services, writes a veteran journalist with China Daily in the third of […]
Eyes on Thailand as quarantine set aside, but key Chinese market on hold A group of tourists talks to reporters after their swab test for COVID-19 at the Phuket International Airport in Phuket, Thailand, July 1, 2021. (SAKCHAI LALIT / AP) Thailand's move to welcome vaccinated international tourists for quarantine-free stays may set a model […]
Tourists visit the Taj Mahal in Agra, India, on June 16, 2021, as it reopens to visitors after Indian authorities eased COVID-19 restrictions. (MONEY SHARMA / AFP) BENGALURU – India’s iconic Taj Mahal reopened to the public on Wednesday as the country, still reeling from a disastrous second wave of the pandemic, rushes to lift […]
2021-04-17 HKT 00:39″ title=”Pakistan’s Fakhar Zaman top-scored for the tourists with 60 off 34 balls. Photo: AP”> Pakistan’s Fakhar Zaman top-scored for the tourists with 60 off 34 balls. Photo: AP Pakistan beat South Africa by three wickets with one ball to spare in the fourth and final Twenty20 international South Africa at SuperSport Park […]