Tag: Tourism

Categories EU

HUNDREDS of Brits ‘vanish’ from Swiss ski resort after being ordered into quarantine amid new Covid-19 strain scare

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Authorities in the Swiss canton of Valais have been left perplexed as hundreds of UK tourists vanished into thin air after the Swiss government ordered them into 10-day quarantine amid concerns over a new Covid-19 strain. … Read More >HUNDREDS of Brits ‘vanish’ from Swiss ski resort after being ordered into quarantine amid new Covid-19 strain scare

Categories Asia & Pacific

‘Global Covid-19 passport’ will be ‘essential’ in restoring international travel, Philippines airline CEO says

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The head of a budget airline based in the Philippines has argued that proof of coronavirus vaccination is necessary to reopen borders to international visitors, echoing calls for a Covid-19 ‘passport’ from others in the industry. … Read More >‘Global Covid-19 passport’ will be ‘essential’ in restoring international travel, Philippines airline CEO says

Categories Health Videos

In Perm, doctors helped an American patient who was considered hopeless in the United States

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US citizen Alan Spencer suffers from a rare form of muscle atrophy. American doctors believed that in his case, “medicine is powerless.” However, after Alan managed to come to Russia at the height of the coronavirus pandemic and receive treatment in a Perm clinic, his condition improved markedly. Now the man can walk independently and plans to do everything so that his compatriots can also get help in Perm. Details – in the material of RT correspondent Maria Finoshina. … Read More >In Perm, doctors helped an American patient who was considered hopeless in the United States

Categories Russia

Russia’s Covid-19 vaccines will NOT be given to tourists & won’t be offered for sale until domestic demand is met: Health ministry

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Russia’s coronavirus vaccines will not be offered commercially and won’t be given to tourists, the health ministry pledged on Wednesday after reports emerged in foreign media that “vaccination tours” are now on sale abroad. … Read More >Russia’s Covid-19 vaccines will NOT be given to tourists & won’t be offered for sale until domestic demand is met: Health ministry

Categories Russia

In the first quarter of this year, 300,000 tourists came to Russia. In the second quarter? Zero.

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With the Covid-19 pandemic leaving thousands of planes idle on the tarmac around the world, the tourist industry has been dealt an almighty blow. In the entire second quarter of 2020, not a single foreign tourist visited Russia. … Read More >In the first quarter of this year, 300,000 tourists came to Russia. In the second quarter? Zero.

Categories Russia

One way to escape Covid-19 pandemic! Russia’s Roscosmos to send a pair of space tourists to International Space station in 2021

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Roscosmos, Russia’s national space agency, will partner with an American firm to send two space tourists to the International Space Station (ISS) next year. Their names will not be disclosed until early 2021. … Read More >One way to escape Covid-19 pandemic! Russia’s Roscosmos to send a pair of space tourists to International Space station in 2021

Categories Russia

‘It is not clear’: Putin says Russian tourists are no closer to going abroad as world governments can’t figure out what to do

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has no idea when countries will open their borders to Russian tourists, because the world’s governments can’t work out what they want to do – and other Europeans don’t even agree with each other. … Read More >‘It is not clear’: Putin says Russian tourists are no closer to going abroad as world governments can’t figure out what to do