BANGKOK: As our travel and tourism industry struggles with the ongoing C-19 crisis, with hotels and tourism businesses closing and their teams laid off, the industry is being decimated.…

Hôtel Chais Monnet is doing its bit for the community of Cognac by preparing and delivering 365 freshly cooked meals to the town’s central hospital on 1 April – the first of the hotel’s…

Gulf Air, the national carrier of Bahrain, and All Food Company, a Bahraini food supplier, imported approximately 4,000 kg worth of fresh produce from Europe using its flagship Boeing…

TUI UK will furlough around 11,000 staff, including almost 4,500 retail agents. The company said 4,455 travel agency employees, roughly 99% of shop staff, will be sent home following the…

The Ministry of Tourism in India has launched a portal called ‘Stranded in India’ to help thousands of foreigners – including tourists from the Gulf – who arrived in India before the…

Hotelmize, developer of AI-based price prediction and profit-optimisation technologies for the hotel booking industry, is raising its B round investment largely in the Asia Pacific to…

VIVA Cruises is ‘bringing’ its newest ship, VIVA TIARA, to the comfort of our own homes. The European river cruise specialist has just launched a comprehensive virtual 360° tour to…

With as many activities available as islets to explore, the Galapagos Islands offer a trip you won’t forget anytime soon. Renowned diving sites, brilliant hiking, utterly unique flora and…

The Pavilions Hotels & Resorts has launched an enticing competition targeted at content creators around the globe who are at home and looking for an activity to focus their passions…

The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) has opened its 2020 PATA Gold Awards for submissions with several new categories. Submissions must be filed with the association on or before…

Emirates has announced that, as of  Monday 6 April, initial flights will commence from Dubai to London Heathrow, Frankfurt, Paris, Brussels and Zurich, with four flights a week to London…

Lufthansa has announced that it will extend its repatriation flight schedule, which was originally scheduled to run until 19 April, to 3 May. This also means that all remaining flights of…

Not only can stress have a profound effect on your psychological wellbeing but it can also compromise your physical health. The first step to managing stress is to recognise its effects on…

Here are 10 movies you can binge on during quarantine that will tour you around the world on your couch.

After announcing that the majority of its fleet would be grounded earlier, easyJet has now decided to ground its entire fleet in response to COVID-19. As well as grounding the fleet, the…

Charitable Travel has partnered with global donation platform JustGiving, and will offer customers a wide range of holidays, hotels, flights and ancillary products in late April this…

A cross-Irish Sea set of collaborative counties in Ireland and Wales has formed a partnership to deliver a new tourism heritage project known as the ‘Celtic Routes’, aimed at bringing…

Qatar Airways Cargo announced it will resume scheduled belly-hold cargo operations to China with the utilisation of wide-body and passenger-configurated aircraft. The additional cargo…

While travellers worldwide are self-isolating, the Japan National Tourism Organisation (JNTO) is encouraging people to satisfy their wanderlust remotely by providing virtual experiences…

Villa de Pranakorn, a boutique hotel in Bangkok’s historic Sam Yot district, has just become a member of Relais & Châteaux, a global luxury hotel and restaurant association. It is…

OYO will offer free rooms at two of its partner hotels for the entire duration of the state of emergency to healthcare practitioners treating Covid-19 cases in Bangkok and Pattaya.…