The heads of the International Monetary Fund, World Bank Group, World Health Organization and World Trade Organization met with the leaders of the African Vaccine Acquisition Trust (AVAT), Africa CDC, Gavi and UNICEF. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
The Ministry’s commission selected Mr. Pos as the most suitable candidate in a tender called for the position. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Travel is a crucial component of the global economy and will be necessary for a full recovery from the economic devastation of the pandemic. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
European Union removes United States from safe-travel list due to a spike in new COVID-19 cases. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Reaching this milestone sets the stage for further easing of COVID-19 pandemic-related curbs in Singapore. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
The Taliban is conducting negotiations with Turkey and Qatar regarding the technical management of operations at the airport. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Japan’s health ministry has confirmed that two individuals who were vaccinated using doses from the batch have died. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
UNWTO's membership includes 159 Member States, 6 Associate Members and over 500 Affiliate Members representing the private sector, educational institutions, tourism associations and local tourism authorities. The person in charge is Secretary-General Zurab Pololikashvili. He is a Georgian politician and diplomat, skilled and trained in political manipulation. This article will show he would have nothing to fear if he decides to run this UN affiliated agency like a criminal enterprise. ...
Category 4 Hurricane Ida's 120-150 mph winds and 'catastrophic' storm surge tear roofs off buildings, make the Mississippi River flow backwards and high rise towers shake. The storm currently left almost a million people without power. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
The COVID-19 pandemic has put new fiscal stress on some state and local governments. One tool that may help them cope is called “asset monetization,” sometimes referred to as “infrastructure asset recycling.” As practiced by Australia and a handful of U.S. jurisdictions, the concept is for a government to sell or lease revenue-producing assets, unlocking their asset values to be used for other high-priority public purposes. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Destructive landfall by Hurricane Ida is imminent today for South Louisiana, near New Orleans in the United States. A monster storm, possibly the strongest for 150 years may develop into a category 5 storm, and to be caught into this storm is not unsurvivable. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Visitors in Hawaii pay $15.00 + tax and tips for a Mai Tai. COVID Vaccine however is free and no tips are accepted. Tourists getting the vaccine in Hawaii are receiving additional shopping discounts and giveaways with the vaccine shot. All of this is courtesy by the State of Hawaii, Hawaii tax-payers. It misleads COVID vaccination number statistics. Putting the public at ease with false numbers may of course contribute to a wrong feeling of security and an increase in infections and death. ...
Travel to another country can be dangerous if you break the law, whether intended or accidental due to being unaware. In Thailand, being arrested could mean the suspect may end up murdered or just simply disappear. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Based on the latest public health advice from the Public Health Agency of Canada, Transport Canada is issuing a Notice to Airmen restricting all direct commercial and private passenger flights to Canada from Morocco from August 29, 2021 until September 29, 2021. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Indian government asked the states of Kerala and Maharashtra to consider night curfews as new COVID cases spike. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Turkish President Erdogan said calm should be restored in Kabul before making a decision on the airport, adding there was a risk of getting “sucked in” to something that would be hard to explain given uncertainty around the possible mission. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
New Orleans mayor is calling for a mandatory evacuation for areas outside the levee system, including Lake Catherine, Irish Bayou, & Venetian Isles. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
The soon-to-be-ended classification of COVID-19 as a critical societal threat allowed Danish authorities to force such restrictions as obligatory mask-wearing and 'coronapass' requirements, as well as the banning of mass gatherings in the country. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
So far, 175 out of 195 countries have lifted restrictions on Max, and over 30 operators have returned the plane to service. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Today's chaos and terror attacks at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan and the nearby Baron Hotel is a game changer also for the already fragile global Travel and Tourism Industry. The World Tourism Network president Dr Peter Tarlow issues a report with his viewpoints. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Many US allies had either already ended their evacuation efforts before Thursday’s explosions, citing advance intelligence about a terrorist attack, or have announced Thursday as the last chance to exit. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
The DCC was delivered in record time to help facilitate the reopening of EU states to travel. In the absence of a single global standard for digital vaccine certificates, it should serve as a blueprint for other nations looking to implement digital vaccination certificates to help facilitate travel and its associated economic benefits. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Intelligence reports had surfaced earlier this week warning of “imminent” terrorist attacks on the Kabul airport by ISIS-K - an Islamic State affiliate in Afghanistan. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Hotels, attractions, transportation, shops, restaurants had been fighting to reopen business in the State of Hawaii. Airlines had been adding new tourism source market destinations for the Aloha State. Business is good- but is this a suicide mission? Elections are coming up. No one in the State is brave enough to suggest and enforce restrictions badly needed to facilitate safe travel to Hawaii again. What part of Hawaii is not safe to visit right now travelers don't understand? - eTurboNews |...
The Government of Uganda has this morning, August 25, 2021, received 51 evacuees of 2,000 expected refugees from Afghanistan who arrived aboard a privately-chartered flight at the Entebbe International Airport. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Each vaccination brings Fiji one step closer to being able to welcome international guests to the islands once again. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
"The National Agency of Drug and Food approved another coronavirus vaccine, Sputnik V, on Tuesday, August 24," the statement published today on the website of the country’s National Agency of Drug and Food Control reads. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
The CIA tried and came back empty handed. The US would love to blame a Chinese laboratory for a leak, while China is backfiring and pointing a finger on a US lab in return. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Taliban demands that western powers refrain from evacuating Afghanistan's educated elite, such as doctors and engineers. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Hokkaido, Miyagi, Gifu, Aichi, Mie, Shiga, Okayama and Hiroshima prefectures will officially be under the State of Emergency from this Friday until September 12. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
