Indonesia on Wednesday officially lifted quarantine requirements for overseas travellers and allowed the resumption of traditional practises for the upcoming holy month of Ramadan after two years of tight pandemic restrictions.The easing of restrictions follows a decline in COVID-19 cases in the Southeast Asian archipelago, which battled an Omicron-fuelled surge earlier this year."The COVID-19 situation in our country continues to improve.

Holiday travel headaches and safety worries swelled Sunday with thousands of flights cancelled, events scrapped and new Omicron cases soaring, as people wrap up Christmas celebrations bruised by a resurgent COVID pandemic.Some 7,900 flights have been grounded and tens of thousands more delayed from Friday through Sunday – one of the busiest travel periods of the year – with multiple airlines acknowledging that Omicron spikes have prompted staffing shortages.Effects have rippled worldwide, and

Asia's gradual easing of international travel curbs is proving a welcome relief for the region's hard-hit tourism operators slowly opening up to visitors from around the world - with one giant exception.China, previously the world's largest outbound tourism market, is keeping international air capacity at just 2 percent of pre-pandemic levels and has yet to relax tight travel restrictions as it sticks to zero tolerance for COVID-19.That has left a US$255 billion annual spending

We have arrived at another of those moments, in this pandemic, where it’s critically important that countries respect a central decision-making body rather than go their own way. The issue on the table now is the use of health certificates to regulate international travel.Sometimes, pandemic decisions need to be made locally to reflect the local context – mask-wearing in schools is an example – but sometimes they really need to be centralised.

Most industries have been severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic with some hit more than others. When the deadly virus first broke out in Wuhan, China, one of the first sectors to feel the brunt of the coronavirus was tourism.

One of the first industries to feel the pinch from the coronavirus crisis has been the tourism sector.

A recent report by The Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) revealed that worldwide corporate travel is worth an estimated US$1.4 trillion. This is a staggering amount and it’s on the rise, with predictions of a market worth US$1.7 trillion by 2022.  There are many reasons attributed to this growth, not least a rise in business confidence which is fuelling the demand for corporate bookings.