Covid-19

The decision was finally taken very quickly. No sooner had flights to Brazil been banned than France decided to impose a compulsory ten-day quarantine, with tests to back it up, for all travellers from the country. [link-block prefix="Related news:" post="108317"] In an interview with France Info, epidemiologists explained that they...

Does Thailand perfectly reflect the way in which the countries of South-East Asia approach the management of tourism at the time of the Covid? One might ask, given that the reopening of the kingdom has been constantly postponed as the government has changed direction. This hesitation and vacillation is not unique to the Kingdom in the...

Efficiency and mastery of destiny: in Singapore, we are proud - very proud, in fact - of our ability to anticipate, plan, develop and, above all, succeed. The Covid-19 pandemic will certainly have swept away some of the certainties of the City-State, whose economy relies on trade with the rest of the planet. In 2020, GDP contracted by 5.8...

China: splendid isolation China was the first country to be hit by the Covid-19 pandemic. But it is also officially the first country to emerge from the health crisis thanks to drastic measures, unprecedented elsewhere, including total control of its population's movements through confinement and intrusive technologies. This success against...

Updated on 14 April Growing fears about the spread of the Brazilian variant, considered to be more transmissible and more resistant to vaccines, have led France to suspend flights from Brazil. Prime Minister Jean Castex announced this "until further notice" to the French National Assembly on 13 April. A...

"Travel corridors", "travel bubbles": these two expressions have become part of everyday vocabulary in many regions, to designate a country-to-country arrangement that allows foreign tourists to return. This is particularly the case in the Asia-Pacific region, where Australia, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Singapore are already talking about or applying this partial opening-up...

Chile is facing a paradox. The country is considered to have one of the most effective vaccination campaigns in the Americas. According to Reuters, over 30% of the Chilean population has already been vaccinated. And yet... This situation has not prevented an explosion in covid contamination. Local experts point the finger at a certain carelessness...

The "Travel Pass" club continues to expand to new horizons: a few days after the announcement of its adoption by the Singaporean authorities, it is now the turn of Latin America to experiment with the solution promoted by IATA. Iberia intends to be at the forefront, with a trial launched on the Madrid-Montevideo route. The...

"On Monday the 12th, I shall myself go to the pub, and raise, cautiously but irrevocably, a pint of beer to my lips." The British will no doubt have listened carefully to this announcement from Boris Johnson's press conference on 5 April. The British Prime Minister officially confirmed this step forward...

National authorities, airlines, airports, even hotel groups: all these stakeholders in business travel are speeding up the deployment of solutions to organise a return to activity that is as "normal" as possible. And they are doing so with different partners, following different options, but with a common desire: to reopen the tourism sector while ensuring the safety of the...

Emmanuel Macron therefore spoke at 8pm on Wednesday to announce the reconfinement of French territory from the morning of Sunday 3 April, and for four weeks. The measures announced on 18 April for 16 départements - which have since been extended to three additional départements - are therefore being applied across the board. Starting with the ban on inter-regional travel,...

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) is calling for greater deployment of antigen tests to support the resumption of international travel. According to a report commissioned by IATA and conducted by OXERA-Edge Health, the best antigen tests, such as BinaxNOW, rival PCR tests in terms of quality, with processing times that are "100 times faster".

After Germany last week, the countries bordering France are now raising barriers against the spread of the virus, which is particularly high in France. Since 30 March, Spain has required a negative PCR or TMA test dating back 72 hours for entry to its territory, whether by land - car or train -, air...

Some parts of the world, notably China and the Middle East, are showing positive signs in terms of hotel activity. What is the outlook for Europe? David Kelly - As the roll-out of vaccination accelerates and travel restrictions are eased, we do see travel demand picking up...

Since US President Joe Biden took office, there has been a growing number of initiatives aimed at reopening the United States to international travellers. Last week, US airlines and travel agencies urged the government to draw up a plan to reopen international borders. On condition that the number of vaccinations and cases of...

One week after the announcement of a reconfinement in sixteen French departments, Aube, Nièvre and Rhône join the territories under restriction. In these three departments, mobility is restricted to a 10km radius, and inter-regional travel is prohibited except for compelling or professional reasons. [link-block prefix="Also worth reading:" post="107011"] The SNCF...

Both Boris Johnson and Angela Merkel have publicly raised the possibility of tightening travel restrictions between France and their countries, the British Prime Minister before a parliamentary committee on Wednesday and the German Prime Minister on Thursday at a press conference on the sidelines of a European Union summit. From this...

At a time when airline offers are fluctuating in line with ever-shakier demand and health restrictions are constantly changing, Airbus is launching a free app, called "Tripset", through which passengers can obtain precise, up-to-date information on travel conditions. Available on Android and iOS, this sort of one-stop shop for...

Since 15 March, Air France passengers on flights between Paris-Charles de Gaulle and San Francisco as well as Los Angeles have been able to test the ICC AOKpass health pass, in partnership with the ADP Group, San Francisco International Airport and Los Angeles World Airports. The airline is thus extending the trial of this solution...