Tag: Tourism

Categories Russia

Eyeing post-pandemic travel boom, Russia to relax tourist visas so globetrotters can see country’s landmarks for up to six months

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Holidays abroad might have been an early casualty of Covid-19 lockdowns, but Russia is betting that wanderlust has only grown, and plans to make it easier for tourists to take a long trip round the world’s largest country. … Read More >Eyeing post-pandemic travel boom, Russia to relax tourist visas so globetrotters can see country’s landmarks for up to six months

Categories Asia & Pacific

Tourists with valid Covid passport may soon be allowed to holiday in Thailand, PM suggests

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Thailand is looking at scrapping its mandatory two-week Covid-19 quarantine for foreigners who can show they have been vaccinated against the virus, the country’s PM said in a bid to revive the nation’s hard-hit tourism industry. … Read More >Tourists with valid Covid passport may soon be allowed to holiday in Thailand, PM suggests

Categories Latin America

Cuba to Offer COVID-19 Vaccine to Arriving Tourists as Island Aims for Total Inoculation in 2021

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Cuban doctors have been hailed across Africa and Latin America for providing the “backbone” of numerous nations’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the US government has attacked the medical brigades, claiming they are engaging in human trafficking, and has encouraged nations such as Brazil and Bolivia to expel them. … Read More >Cuba to Offer COVID-19 Vaccine to Arriving Tourists as Island Aims for Total Inoculation in 2021

Categories Asia & Pacific

Thailand to introduce tourism tax for every visitor, advised to legalize gambling to help stop the spread of Covid-19

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Tourist traffic to Thailand has plummeted during the Covid-19 pandemic. Now the kingdom is introducing a visitor tax to help pay Covid-19 costs and is being urged to legalize gambling to stop its spread in underground. … Read More >Thailand to introduce tourism tax for every visitor, advised to legalize gambling to help stop the spread of Covid-19

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