Travel

The country’s airports will be officially opened for commercial passenger transportation and tourists from January 21 as per the health guidelines, Tourism Minister Prasanna Ranatunga said.

Nearly 2600 tourists from Ukraine are scheduled to arrive in Sri Lanka during the one-month pilot project which hasn been launched by the tourism sector in collaboration with the Civil Aviation Authority and other stakeholders, and will end on Jan. 19, sources from the Civil Aviation industry said

India has raised the number of visitors it will allow into the Taj Mahal monument to 15,000 per day despite warnings from health officials that overcrowding at tourist sites could lead to a rise in coronavirus cases.

The Mattala International Airport will re-open for tourists under a pilot project from today with over 200 Ukrainian tourists expected to arrive here at 2.40 p.m.

Thousands of truckers endured Christmas Eve stranded near a major British port, ensnared in the chaos unleashed by a new coronavirus strain, as Western nations accelerated vaccination programmes.

Sri Lanka suspends flights from United Kingdom starting tomorrow (23). The decision has been taken due to the emergence of a new variant of COVID-19.

The Public Health Inspectors Union yesterday urged authorities to impose immediate travel restrictions for all nine provinces by sealing its borders, warning that if urgent steps are not taken, the repercussions may be seen in January.

Pakistan says it has been assured by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that the abrupt visa ban imposed last month is “temporary in nature” and were imposed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Despite the pandemic, the Indian Ocean archipelago received its 100,000 th. tourist this month since the tourism sector began to be opened up in July.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday that the cabinet has agreed in principle to allow travel with Australia without quarantine in the first quarter of 2021.