Tourism

• Wednesday, March 31st 2021 - 13:20 UTC

  Falkland Islands TRIP and BFSAI TRIP schemes to end on 31 May 2021

  

  There are just two months remaining before both the Falkland Islands TRIP and BFSAI TRIP schemes end on 31 May 2021. Both Tourism Recovery Incentive Programmes – known locally as ‘TRIP’ schemes – have proved very popular since launching, providing participants with vouchers to spend on local tourism activities while commercial airlinks remain suspended due to the pandemic.

• Tuesday, March 30th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  Florida Governor DeSantis against US vaccine passports

  

  Florida State Governor Ron DeSantis Monday announced he would fight the federal administration's plans to create a national vaccine passport.

• Friday, March 26th 2021 - 10:48 UTC

  Argentina halts all flights to/from Brazil, Chile and Mexico

  

  Starting this coming Saturday, no passenger flights will be allowed into Argentina from covid-ridden Brazil, Chile and Mexico, in a move to curb the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, particularly the Amazon or P1 strain as well as the British variant which is also causing havoc in the country's health system.

• Friday, March 26th 2021 - 09:49 UTC

  Superjumbo era comes to an end: Last Airbus A380 takes off on its test flight

  

  The era of the Superjumbo is coming to an end as the last Airbus A380 ever built has taken off for the first test flight time, departing from the company's headquarters in Toulouse, France, headquarters on Thursday.

• Tuesday, March 23rd 2021 - 19:38 UTC

  £5k fine for holidaying abroad under new UK Covid-19 rules

  

  UK residents travelling abroad without a valid reason may face up to £5,000 fines under new legislation set to be passed by the British parliament this week. The move comes as a new wave of Covid-19 cases begins to take hold in European countries, including Germany and France.

• Saturday, March 20th 2021 - 09:17 UTC

  Rio beaches closed for the weekend and no tourists allowed into the city

  

  Rio de Janeiro closed its famed beaches on Friday in a bid to contain a surge of COVID-19, a move criticized by anti-lockdown President Jair Bolsonaro, who said sun-deprived citizens risked a lack of vitamin D.

• Saturday, March 13th 2021 - 09:55 UTC

  Resumption of Sao Paulo and Santiago/Falklands air links taking off next July?

  

  Commercial air links between Chile and Brazil and the Falkland Islands are expected to resume next July according to Aviacionline, an air industry site that revealed it obtained the information through Cirium which specializes in aviation and travel data and analytics.

• Thursday, March 11th 2021 - 09:40 UTC

  IATA expects a return to personal and leisure travel from the second half of 2021

  

  Personal and leisure travel will return from the second half of this year as borders reopen to tourists hungry to be free again and to reunite with families and friends, Alexandre de Juniac, director of the International Air Transport Association (Iata) said in an interview with The Straits Times from Singapore.

• Wednesday, March 10th 2021 - 08:34 UTC

  Countries and airlines discuss “health passports” hoping to re launch travel

  

  From digital certificates to “health passports”, countries and airlines across the globe are hoping to re-launch travel by letting people prove their Covid-free status. But with patchy vaccine access around the world and mounting concerns over data privacy, questions are swirling about how the measures will work in practice.

• Tuesday, March 9th 2021 - 09:25 UTC

  A third of world travel destinations remain closed to international tourism, UNWTO report

  

  Around a third of 217 world travel destinations’ borders surveyed remain completely closed to international tourists, as concerns grow over the impact of new coronavirus variants, and some governments reverse efforts to ease restrictions, a new report released on Monday by the UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) revealed.