After over a month of following lockdown restrictions along with border closure, the tourist destinations and sites across Jakarta are now ready to welcome tourists again. Tourist destinations and sites in the city are scheduled to reopen starting from June 13. To prevent from the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, all tourist sites across the capital were closed for visitors ...

The ASEAN Tourism Association (ASEANTA) will be hosting a webinar on “New Normal in Tourism and Creating Travel Bubble” on June 25 2020 at 15:00 – 17:45 PM (Bangkok time). The webinar will be focusing on the new normal trends and evolution of Tourism in the region and globally post Covid-19 pandemic. The webinar will be presented by all the ...

Cambodia has ordered foreigners to pay for COVID-19 test, quarantine and treatment services. “This was implemented as per the request of Ministry of Health” Economy and Finance Minister Aun Pornmoniroth said in a letter to media on Tuesday (8 Jun). Under the Kingdom’s health measures, all international and Cambodian travellers arriving into Cambodia will be directly transferred from airports to ...

The Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand (CAAT) has granted seven more airports to resume domestic flight operations effective from Saturday (June 6), said on its website. Mr. Chula Sukmanop, CAAT Director-General said, “The CAAT has green lighted the seven airports to resume domestic flights for now.” The seven domestic airports include Tak Airport (TKT), Nakhon Ratchasima Airport (NAK), Petchabun Airport ...

With the rise in the outbreak of the COVID-19 globally and numerous travel restrictions from various Governments, demand for air travel across the world has declined significantly. Royal Brunei airlines recently announced that it will operate a revised and substantially reduced flying program across June. A new temporary flying program will operate until 11:59pm on 30th June 2020 directly connecting ...

Vietnam is planning to soon re-open Phu Quoc Island for foreign tourists to resume international tourism. Strict safety measures will be implemented to ensure the health of all visitors. Phu Quoc Island, well known as “Pearl Island” is the largest island in Vietnam. It became the top tourist destination after an international airport was built there in 2012 and the ...

Indonesia’s low cost carrier Lion Air has decided to suspend all of its scheduled flights once again for overseas and domestic routes from Friday (June 5) till further notice. The announcement from the airline came just after weeks of it resuming passenger flight operations which earlier remained suspended from April 24 to limit the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) through air ...

Sri Lanka is planning to reopen its tourism sector to overseas travelers from August 1, 2020 by allowing only small groups of inbound visitors to begin with. Mr. Kimali Fernando, the Chairperson of the Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau, said that small groups with limited number of visitors from other countries would be allowed to visit Sri Lanka from starting ...

With Government of Thailand easing COVID-19 lockdown restrictions and allowing travel across the country, Thai nationals have started visiting temples again. Although all visitors  were seen complying the key health safety and prevention measures against spread of COVID-19 such as wearing masks, maintaining a social distance, getting hand sanitized and temperature checks before entering into the temple’s complex. Many tourists ...

National carrier Singapore Airlines (SIA) and regional carrier Silk Air will resume few flights to some of the international destinations in June and July subject to regulatory approvals and changes. SIA said, “SIA and Silk Air will continue to adjust our capacity to match the demand for international air travel,” on Monday (June 1). SIA also informed through its website ...