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Russian tourists have begun to return to Cuba and Venezuela through new flight routes after the sanctions imposed following the Ukraine invasion shut them out of European and American airspace.

The Cambodian city of Sihanoukville was a major international resort destination before the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic crippled its tourism industry. The city is now littered with empty and half-finished “ghost buildings” abandoned by Chinese investors. According to local entrepreneurs, these unsightly gang-infested husks are keeping the tourism industry from making a comeback.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) – Estonia decided Thursday to bar people from neighbouring Russia with tourist visas from entering the northernmost Baltic country as a consequence of the war in Ukraine.

Portugal’s government will liberalise migration rules, using immigration as a quick fix for gaps in the labour market.

The Canadian government is set to reinstate random mandatory Wuhan virus tests for airline passengers after briefly suspending the tests due to long delays at Canadian airports.

NICE, France (AP) – Tourism is booming again in France – and so is COVID-19. French officials have “invited” or “recommended” people to go back to using face masks but stopped short of renewing restrictions that would scare visitors away or revive anti-government protests.

Indonesia’s government recently announced plans to develop a new “digital nomad” visa program that would allow remote workers to live and work in Indonesia tax-free for up to five years, Fortune reported on Tuesday.

Australia’s borders reopened on Monday as tearful Aussies and visitors embraced at airports with some seeing loved ones for the first time since the country went into self-imposed isolation back in 2020.

“Lockdown politicians” contributed to Florida’s historic domestic tourism numbers, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said on Tuesday as he announced the Sunshine State is seeing a record-breaking 118 million domestic visitors in the state in 2021.

Florida saw the highest level of domestic visitation to the state ever in 2021, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) announced on Tuesday. The news serves as a massive statement as Florida forged the way for others to follow in opening their states and allowing people to exercise their choice throughout the pandemic, unlike blue states which continued to implement lockdowns, restrictions, and heavy-handed vaccine and mask mandates.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced Monday that Australia will reopen its borders to “double vaccinated” tourists from the 21st of February.

New Zealand – which has had some of the toughest coronavirus restrictions in the world – announced Thursday it will begin to relax its border controls by the end of this month.

Tourism entrepreneurs in the northern Lapland region of Finland have warned the government that further Wuhan coronavirus restrictions could destroy their industry and could put tens of thousands of jobs at risk. The Association of Tourism Industries of Lapland (LME)

The Indian state of Goa announced on Monday it will shut down schools through the end of the month and implement a curfew in response to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic – just days after video showed throngs of thousands of tourists enjoying the state’s beaches.

A young child tourist was apparently trampled by a marching guardsman while visiting the Tower of London on Wednesday.

Hotel revenues in Italy have plunged as much as 65 per cent as the sector describes suffering “one cancellation per minute” over the Chinese coronavirus and restrictions on the unvaccinated.

The coronavirus pandemic triggered a partial collapse of Asia’s tourism sector last year, eliminating 1.6 million jobs across five Asian countries, the International Labor Organization (ILO) reported Thursday.

Children five-years-old and up will soon be required to receive the coronavirus vaccine to board the Disney Cruise Line, the company announced Wednesday.

Twenty-seven individuals aboard a Carnival cruise have tested positive for the coronavirus prior to the ship making a stop in Belize City, the Belize Tourism Board said.

Canadian tourists are so pivotal to funding the Cuban military — currently undertaking a campaign of repression that has resulted in over 1,000 confirmed arrests and disappearances — that the Communist Party eased coronavirus restrictions for the country as Canada’s cases were peaking, the nation’s CBC observed Monday.

Foreign tourists are returning to the U.S. with the gradual opening of international travel, but are avoiding San Francisco, where the number of arrivals from overseas has dropped by a staggering 93% from 2019.

Business owners in Thailand declared this week that they intend to open their establishments in defiance of coronavirus lockdown orders imposed on Sunday.

The Indonesian Pediatric Society in Bali on Wednesday urged parents on the island to limit their children’s outdoor activities citing an alleged risk to their health from the Chinese coronavirus, the Indonesian news site Coconuts Bali reported Thursday.

Hundreds of Mexicans are flying to the U.S. daily to get a coronavirus vaccine on both commerical and private flights.

France eased several COVID-19 restrictions, with authorities saying it’s no longer always mandatory to wear masks outdoors.

Indonesia’s Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy said Monday it may soon “require” Indonesian civil servants to work from Bali for a limited number of weeks throughout the year as part of plans to “formalize” a recent tourism initiative designed to boost the island’s economy.

PARIS (AP) – France will impose a mandatory quarantine on visitors from Britain to prevent the spread of a worrying virus variant first detected in India, the French government said Wednesday. Government spokesman Gabriel Attal said the new measure will

Ambassadors from member states of the European Union have backed a proposal to allow international travellers to enter Europe under the proviso that they are fully vaccinated.

Greece launched its tourism season Friday amid a competitive scramble across the Mediterranean to lure vacationers emerging from lockdowns.

China began the five-day communist holiday known as “May Day” on Saturday by encouraging citizens to travel the country. Thousands, and perhaps millions, obliged, flooding tourist sites like the Great Wall of China and forming tightly packed crowds in major cities.

Chinese government media outlets predicted a “travel bonanza” on May Day, or May 1, on Wednesday as “red” tourists prepare to visit historic sites to celebrate 100 years of mass killings, poverty, and repression under the Chinese Communist Party.

Foreign visitors will enjoy a “much more pleasant” experience visiting Turkish tourist sites over the next month while the nation endures a government-mandated coronavirus lockdown because the order has essentially freed up space at monuments for foreigners, Turkey’s tourism minister said Tuesday.

China will hold 20 music festivals across the country during its upcoming May Day holiday, May 1-5, with booking sites expecting the concerts to attract up to 200 million travelers.

Italian government officials said Thursday that tourism could reopen in Italy on June 2 “or even earlier” in an effort to salvage the 2021 tourist season after a year of crippling coronavirus restrictions.

China’s state-run Global Times on Tuesday proclaimed tourism to Wuhan, ground zero for the global coronavirus pandemic, has “rebounded” in the year since heavy lockdown orders were lifted and the city is now witnessing a “travel blowout.”

About 8,000 foreign tourists are arriving in the UK every day according to Border Force figures, as Brits are barred from going abroad.