International Travel

The UK government on March 18 lifted the Covid-19 international travel restrictions. All remaining Covid-19 pandemic related international travel restrictions, including filling in Passenger Locator Forms before arrival and compulsory pre-departure tests for unvaccinated travellers, have been scrapped from Friday, the UK ...

The Ministry of Tourism has been allocated Rs 2,400 crore in the Union Budget 2022, which is 18.42 per cent higher than the allocation for the financial year 2021-22, bringing some relief to a sector ravaged by the COVID pandemic. Finance ...

Germany has ended its strict rules for travelers entering from a series of countries with particularly high rates of Omicron infections. The nine countries, including Britain and South Africa - as well as several other southern African states - had been placed ...

Germany is set to classify the United Kingdom as an area of variant of concern due to the rapid spread of the omicron coronavirus variant, Germany's Robert Koch Institute announced on Saturday, December 18. The decision is set to go into effect ...

The US has made it mandatory for all incoming passengers, including those from India, to carry a negative COVID-19 test report or a proof of recovery from the contagion amidst rising number of cases of the new Omicron variant. The ...

Private jets can be addictive for those with enough money. Once tried, it can be hard to step onto anything else. They fly in and out often unnoticed. Passengers avoid waiting in line for security checks. For decades they have carried ...

As concerns over the new Covid-19 variant - Omicron, continue to rise, the centre on Sunday shared new guidelines for international travellers visiting India. However, the new guidelines will come into force starting from 1 December. The travellers arriving in India ...

On Thursday, the central government directed all the states and Union Territories (Uts) to do a mandatory screening and testing of travellers from the three respective countries; South Africa, Hong Kong and Botswana. A new Covid-19 variant with new mutations is ...

The fourth coronavirus wave is currently resulting in record infections in many European countries - including Germany. In some places, the situation is so dramatic that public events and fairs have been cancelled and contact restrictions introduced. Tourist travel has also ...

Singapore has reached an agreement with India's Ministry of Civil Aviation on the resumption of scheduled commercial passenger flights between the two countries, the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) said on Sunday, November 21. Singapore's vaccinated travel lane (VTL) with India ...

Before devastating floods swept across western Germany in mid-July, killing 150 people, Germany's Ahr valley was a popular destination for wine lovers and hikers. Now there is little left for tourists to explore. Vineyards have been destroyed, trails and roads have ...

Three become one: The state in southwestern Germany is the only one created by a referendum. In 1952, the states of Württemberg-Baden, Baden and Württemberg-Hohenzollern merged. From that point on, the Black Forest and Swabian Alb, Heidelberg and Stuttgart, Black Forest ...