On Monday, 27 July, health authorities made confirmation of a tourist arrival testing positive for Covid-19.As such, the positive case marks the first such case since borders reopened in Maldives. Earlier, Maldives government officially lifted travel restrictions on 15 July, marking the border...

Maldives Airports Company Limited (MACL) has announced the retirement of Moosa Solih and appointed Mr. Gordon Andrew Stewart as their Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director. According to the announcement, Moosa Solih retired after 39 years of service and the company acknowledged his...

Through 7 iterations of our hotel consumer sentiment studies we have determined the #1 factor in persuading guests to travel in 2020. Find out what it is!

Earlier this month, Messe Berlin (Singapore) has announced that ITB Asia, MICE Show Asia, and Travel Tech Asia will go virtual, in combo 3 in one event. The annual travel trade show will be held from 21 – 23 October 2020, on a newly developed virtual platform, known as the ITB Community, which is...

President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih has ratified the 17th Amendment Bill to the Export-Import Act of Maldives (Act No. 31/79), which was passed by the Parliament on 15th July at the 20th ‎sitting of its ‎second session. This sees an increase in the tax on all tobacco products imported to the...

Qatar Airway's vice president for South-east Asia, Jared Lee, lays out the roadmap for airlines to restart operations in a sustainable manner, including putting in place safety protocols, optimising fleets by switching to smaller jets, and offering flexible booking policies

Many travellers in Asia-Pacific have plans to travel within six months, once travel bans lift, with millennials set to be the first to hit the road, according to a travel sentiment survey by Sabre Corporation.

With travel resuming after the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic, travelers are looking for newly implemented safety procedures when determining which hotels to patron. More companies are taking the approach of digitalizing certain aspects of their business to create a contact-less experience that...

A new generation of digital native users is already socially active in the digital environment and setting the pace for new trends. The millennial generation has given way to generation Z, a new audience that Meliá Hotels International aims to attract to help build brand recognition and notoriety.

Distilling a return to operations plan into its component parts is the secret sauce to making it manageable. Ultimately, the process for developing a comprehensive plan covers four main themes.

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UNWTO also calls upon the sector and travelers to address this challenge with sound judgment and proportionate measures.

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How many cases are there in Singapore?

SINGAPORE: Singapore reported 469 new COVID-19 cases as of noon on Monday (Jul 27), including 15 imported cases and two infections in the community.