China has placed the entire 17.5-million population of the tech hub of Shenzhen under lockdown as the government authorities scramble to contain a severe COVID-19 outbreak despite the country’s “zero tolerance” policy towards COVID-19 pandemic.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said that COVID-19 restrictions will be tightened across the country if there is a community transmission of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus but she ruled out lockdown. New Zealand’s tight controls and geographic …

The travellers to Sweden will no longer be required to show a negative COVID-19 test before entering the country, the government said on Tuesday. Sweden introduced rules for a recent negative COVID-19 test on December 28 last year in a …

The Mother City saw an increase in visitors with Cape Town International Airport reporting recovery of 66% for domestic arrivals and 29% for international when compared to December 2019. Across the board, tourism figures looked brighter for ‘Dezemba’, despite ongoing travel bans and the discovery of Omicron.

Hong Kong will suspend for a month transit flights from around 150 countries and territories considered high risk because of the escalation of the coronavirus variant Omicron, deepening the global financial hub’s isolation.

Despite visible green shoots in key macroeconomic indicators in the first half, the emergence of new COVID-19 variant Omicron and its fast spread has made the global economic recovery increasingly uneven towards the tail end of 2021, due to which …

France is easing COVID-19 restrictions that have been introduced on December 18, effectively limiting all non-essential travel between the two countries amid fears about the spread of the Omicron variant. The vaccinated visitors traveling from the United Kingdom to France …

The European hotels sees a sharp decline from the Omicron variant to start the year while those in China and the U.S. saw impressive gains.

On Tuesday, travel stocks ascended sharply amid confidence that the financial danger of the Omicron variant was waning whilst file numbers of recent instances have been reported within the UK, France, Italy and US. US instances in a single day …

The Omicron variant of coronavirus has started impacting the tourism industry in Jaisalmer. There were no vacant rooms in Jaisalmer hotels due to Christmas and New Year after the heavy inflow of tourists. But, now due to the increasing cases …