El Salvador’s government was forced to take the country’s new digital wallet Chivo offline while it feverishly scrambled to boost server capacity. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
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Tanzanian President: Number one tourist campaigner in Africa
Campaigning to expose Tanzania’s tourism across the world, Tanzania President Samia Suluhu Hassan is touring the northern tourist circuit, guiding the shooting of a documentary film on key and premier attractive sites. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
How to visit Saudi Arabia from UAE, South Africa, Argentina again?
The once closed and mysterious Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is now known to be the most tourism friendly country in the world. The country is taking a front row in world tourism leadership. Today the Saudi Ministry of Interior confirmed it will reopen the Kingdom to its neighbor, the United Arab Emirates, to South Africa, and to Argentina. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
US Constitution and Declaration of Independence now have ‘harmful language’
Raging political correctness lunacy does not spare US Constitution, Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Carnival Cruise Glory cancellation of New Orleans departures
FEMA charters Carnival Cruise Line's Carnival Glory to Provide Housing for Hurricane Ida first responders in New Orleans. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
More of Thailand reopens in 3 weeks
Phuket see the stage for Thailand destination reopenings since the onset of COVID-19 using the Sandbox tourism program as its guidepost. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
FTA urges US transit agencies to increase vaccination rates
Federal Transit Administration (FTA) is calling on transit leaders to share this information with employees, and to do all you can to encourage vaccination among your workforces. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Man sentenced to 5 years in prison for spreading COVID in Vietnam
28-year-old Vietnamese man lands a 5-year prison term for travelling and spreading the COVID-19 virus. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
San José to Reno-Tahoe flights on Southwest Airlines restart
Southwest Airlines temporarily suspended service between San José and Reno in April 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and related travel declines. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Toronto to Las Vegas, Orlando, Tampa and Cancun on Air Canada Rouge now
Air Canada's leisure airline, resumed service today with flights operating between Toronto and Las Vegas, Orlando, and Regina, with other destinations being introduced in September, including Cancun and Tampa. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Bahrain Exhibition & Convention Center has a new GM
Dr. Debbie Kristiansen appointed General Manager of the new Bahrain International Exhibition & Convention Center, due to open in 2022. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Americans don’t think the worst of the pandemic is over
Americans' confidence that the worst of the coronavirus pandemic is over has decreased to 23%. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Aeroflot requires Pilots to be vaccinated
Six pilots working for Russia's main international airline have been grounded and suspended from duty under rules allowing companies to effectively dismiss staff who refuse to sign up for a vaccine against COVID-19 virus. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
65% of US airline passengers support vaccine passports
If the FAA decided to implement a vaccine passport program, nearly one in 10 travelers would be barred from boarding the plane. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
No radar? No problem! Kabul Airport reopens for domestic flights
Kabul airport is operating without radar or navigation systems, making it difficult to resume international civilian flights. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
New Airbus Single-Aisle Airspace cabin adds comfort to Lufthansa flights
Lufthansa has once again made a choice of innovation and passenger appeal, raising the bar for the flying public at large to experience next-level, Airbus leading cabin innovations. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Europe’s summer air travel recovery fails
The countries which fared worst were those which rely more on long haul tourism, such as France and Italy and those which imposed the most onerous and volatile travel restrictions such as the UK, which languished at the bottom of the list, achieving just 14.3% of 2019 levels. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Prepare for lines when you fly from London Heathrow
Some Heathrow passengers were reporting absolutely absurd queue times due to a Border Force staff shortage which kept travelers waiting in lines for five hours. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Over 2,000 Jamaica tourism workers vaccinated in first 3 days of vaccination drive
Well over 2,000 tourism workers in Jamaica have been vaccinated using one of three vaccines made available to them at a number of strategic blitz sites organized by the new Tourism Vaccination Task Force, in its first three days of major activities. The Task Force, which was established to facilitate the vaccination of all tourism workers island-wide, has organized a series of vaccination blitzes, with the first being held on August 30. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Turkey tightens COVID restrictions for foreign arrivals
The updates are implemented in a bid to curb the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey, and are set to go into effect on Saturday, August 4. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Painful Thailand lockdowns must stop, businesses cry
The Thailand Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration eased some disease controls on Wednesday, September 1, 2021, of Thailand lockdowns. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Expo 2020 Dubai gets a special delivery from US Open
Outside of New York, the tennis bags will be distributed within some of Emirate’s gateways in the United States. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Lufthansa Group announces new Chief Strategy Officer
Jörg Eberhart will succeed William Wilms, who was appointed to the Executive Board of Lufthansa Technik on 1 September 2021. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Flying drones to hunt down Italian beachgoers who spread COVID-19
When the drone detects a person with a fever, it identifies them and alerts the medical surveillance team, who then arrives at the site for investigation, which can lead to a COVID-19 test. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Sandals Resorts takes the worry out of travel plans in today’s world
Travelers are chomping at the bit, ready to make their vacation plans, despite what is going on in the world right now. Fortunately, Sandals Resorts has a way to make those plans with confidence and without worry about what may or may not happen in the future. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Key European tourism challenges highlighted at Slovenian Forum
It is time to address the shortcomings of tourism industry that have resulted from the expansion in the last 50 years and transform tourism into a much greener, digital and inclusive industry. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
Tourism Seychelles and Emirates airline embark on marketing partnership
Tourism Seychelles has launched a strategic partnership with Emirates airline, a loyal partner and collaborator, and the first international airline to return to the island at the destination’s reopening in August 2020. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
US Senate urged to hold hearings on airlines’ use of COVID bailout funds
US airlines received over $79 billion in bailout money across three COVID-related bills in 2020-2021 to help them, their employees, and the air travel industry survive the worst of the COVID pandemic. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
No quarantine: Abu Dhabi opens to fully vaccinated travelers
This is a huge step forward as the UAE prepares to host the EXPO 2020, the Formula 1 Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and many more global events over the coming months. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News
At least 15 people killed in catastrophic US northeast floods
By midday, nearly 20 fatalities had been confirmed, with several deaths reported in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and one in Maryland. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News