カテゴリー: Travel & leisure
With tourists struggling to access the two primary digital payment apps, Alipay and WeChat pay, Beijing has put measures in place to make cash payments easierFor 18 years, Liu Yau-li has been bringing tourists to China. In that time she’s seen the full…
Exclusive: Report says optics of western firms organising Xinjiang tours amid ‘crimes against humanity are disastrous’Uyghur advocates have called on western tourism companies to stop selling package holidays that take visitors through Xinjiang, where …
Agency DDB Philippines apologises for using ‘highly inappropriate’ images that stock footage providers offer from Brazil and IndonesiaA tourism campaign for the Philippines backfired after the creators of a video promoting the archipelago nation as a h…
The climate crisis and farmers opting to grow more lucrative timber is putting many bat-makers in Kashmir out of businessFor more than 100 years they have been making cricket bats from Kashmir’s willow trees. Along the highway leading to the town of Sa…
Authorities will resume issuing all visas after closing borders to international holidaymakers in 2020China will reopen its borders to foreign tourists for the first time in the three years since the Covid pandemic erupted by allowing all categories of…
Rights groups say amended criminal code underscores shift towards fundamentalismIndonesia’s parliament has overhauled the country’s criminal code to outlaw sex outside marriage and curtail free speech, in a dramatic setback to freedoms in the world’s t…
Videos appear to show guests rushing to locked gates as strict Covid restrictions return across ChinaVisitors to Shanghai’s Disney resort were trapped inside for the second time in 12 months after authorities and operators announced a sudden lockdown a…
Covid accelerated a decline but a new breed of bathhouse is reimagining a Japanese traditionIt is a Japanese ritual that stretches back centuries: stripping off in the company of friends and neighbours before stretching out in the recuperative waters o…
Scheme requires tourists to stay on island for 14 days if they wish to travel elsewhere in ThailandCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe Thai island of Phuket has reopened to some foreign tourists, more than one year after the…
Government considers adding more destinations to England’s red list as it monitors Vietnam variantCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe UK is unlikely to unlock significant new summer destinations this week when changes to tra…
Move, which takes effect on Friday 9 April, takes number of countries on red list to 39Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe Philippines, Pakistan, Kenya, and Bangladesh are to be added to England’s “red list” of countries fro…
Single people invited on free tour with fortune-teller in attempt to boost Covid-stricken travel sectorCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageSingle people in Thailand have been invited to pray for love on a river cruise to nine te…
Shop and restaurant discounts part of ¥1.35tn plan after 99% fall in numbers from overseasCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageTourists in Japan could soon be tucking into ramen and sushi, and buying souvenirs in the knowledge th…
Individual states apply varying coronavirus restrictions – from 14-day quarantine to case-by-case assessment of symptomsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIndia has restarted domestic air travel as the country recorded its high…
Fewer visitors mean less food for troops of wild monkeys at Prang Sam YodThe coronavirus outbreak has left Thailand’s hotels empty, its tour guides without work and its markets unusually quiet. The country’s wildlife may also now be noticing the lack o…