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This file photo taken on 18 January, 2022 shows passengers, some wearing full personal protective equipment, waiting to be transported by bus to their quarantine hotels, after arriving at Pudong International Airport in Shanghai

China halves quarantine time for overseas travellers

China on Tuesday reduced the length of mandatory quarantine for inbound travellers, in the biggest relaxation of entry restrictions after sticking to a rigid zero Covid policy throughout the pandemic

Travel-therapy can provide real mental health benefits

Travel-therapy can provide real mental health benefits

A new cross-disciplinary paper from Edith Cowan University (ECU) proposes we change the way we view tourism, seeing it not just as a recreational experience but as an industry that can provide real ...

Travel-therapy can provide real mental health and wellbeing benefits

Travel-therapy can provide real mental health and wellbeing benefits

A new cross-disciplinary paper from Edith Cowan University (ECU) proposes we change the way we view tourism, seeing it not just as a recreational experience but as an industry that can provide real ...

Editorial

Holy Eid-ul-Fitr Returning of the old festival anew

Muslims around the world have spent a comforting month of Ramadan overcoming a terrible pandemic. After a long month of fasting, the holy Eid-ul-Fitr is around the corner. Eid means joy, Eid means ...

Indian Visa

Indian Visa Application Centre remains open to facilitate visa applicants

The Indian Visa Application Centre (IVAC) in Dhaka will remain open ahead of Eid to facilitate applicants in Bangladesh who have applied for Indian visas.

Recovery in global air travel gathers steam: IATA

Recovery in global air travel gathers steam: IATA

Air travel posted a strong rebound in February 2022 compared to January 2022, as Omicron-related impacts moderated outside of Asia, according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA).

Editorial

Tourism tax Increase recreational facilities for foreign tourists

The demand for reduction of service and income tax in the tourism sector raised at the meeting of the Standing Committee on Hotel, Motel, Resort and Guest House Development of Federation of ...

Entrepreneur Sufia Hossain

Interview: Sufia Hossain 'I moved back to build a bridge between Bangladesh and the global market'

Born in Dhaka, raised in Queens, Sufia Hossain studied fashion but left the glamour world in 2019 to open her farm-to-bottle sauce company. A young entrepreneur, Sufia Hossain moved to Dhaka in her ...

A lone flight attendant waits for a ride outside Washington's Reagan National airport as the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic continues to keep airline travel at minimal levels, in Washington, US 29 April 2020.

People with low income saw smallest drop in travel during pandemic

A recent case study in Columbus suggests that low-income people were the least likely to reduce their local travel during the Covid-19 lockdown, probably because they still had to go to work

Bangladesh Bank headquarters

BB relaxes foreign exchange rules for private travel abroad

Authorised Dealer banks have been allowed to endorse or set travel entitlements to concerned Bangladesh nationals in international cards for multiple years

An aircraft of US-Bangla Airlines

US-Bangla Airlines to start Dhaka-Male fights in November

US-Bangla Airlines is going to start operating flights to Male, the capital of Maldives, from the third week of November.

Philippine Airlines (PAL) planes are seen parked on tarmac in Manila International Airport in Pasay city, metro Manila.

Philippines to lift Covid travel ban on 10 countries including Bangladesh

Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte is lifting a coronavirus ban on travellers from 10 countries including Bangladesh, the presidential spokesperson said on Saturday.

A photograph taken on 5 March 2020 shows the white-tiled area surrounding the Kaaba, inside Mecca's Grand Mosque, empty of worshippers. Saudi Arabiaemptied Islam's holiest site for sterilisation over fears of the new coronavirus, an unprecedented move after the kingdom suspended the year-round umrah pilgrimage last year

Saudi Arabia opens Umrah pilgrimage to vaccinated persons abroad

After about a year and a half of not receiving overseas pilgrims due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Saudi Arabia will gradually begin receiving Umrah pilgrimage requests from abroad for vaccinated ...

Passenger at Gabtali bus terminal on 22 July 2021

Covid-19 People leaving Dhaka before 'strictest restrictions'

A large number of people have started leaving Dhaka before the strict restrictions to curb the spread of novel coronavirus, are enforced from tomorrow, Friday

Benapole land port

Passengers now can travel to India with conditions through Benapole port

Despite the extension of travel ban to India through land ports, passport-holding passengers are now allowed to travel through Benapole land port every day and return on only three weekdays till 31 ...

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