The travel industry of Ilocos Norte territory would typically anticipate the late summer season starting in March of consistently when a large number of sightseers would run to the region’s renowned sea shores and other normal attractions. However, hardly any guests came even as the territory started tolerating sightseers in September a year ago under its travel bubble including the …

SINGAPORE – After successfully reaching an in-principle agreement to establish a bilateral Air Travel Bubble with Hong Kong, Singapore is now aiming to make a similar agreement with its neighbor, Malaysia. According to Transport Minister Ong Ye Kung, The country would really like to have an air bubble with Malaysia. He said that the initiative will have to wait and …

SINGAPORE – Hong Kong and Singapore announced on Friday that it has agrred to set up a travel bubble that will allow residents to travel between the two countries as long as they passed the Covid-19 screening. Under the agreement, residents of both cities wanting to travel must test negative for the Covid-19 virus and will be flying only on …

All over the Southeast Asia region, each country are now focusing on developing their domestic tourism as international travel collapses due to Covid-19 pandemic. Several Asean countries are now offering hotel rooms at half price, its own citizens heading to their local beaches. The collapse in international travel has opened doors to further develop domestic tourism. The regional bloc is …

Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said on Monday Travel-bubble tourism will include limits on destinations and visitor numbers, inbound flights and where they come from. He said the government was still deliberating which areas foreign visitors would be allowed to go. Also when the ban on tourism is lifted. Those areas would need to have disease control measures in place, …

MANILA – The Department of Tourism (DOT) is eyeing on implementing the so-called “travel bubble” between Covid-free areas in the country and abroad. Department of Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo Puyat said that these corridors would allow the resumption of tourism in Philippine destinations with zero cases of Covid-19 to foreign tourists from infection-free nations. Puyat added that it’s hard to …