Asia

Vistara begins flights between Heathrow and Delhi

Indian carrier will operate route until 24 October as part of “transport bubble”

Virgin Atlantic to launch three new Pakistan routes

Carrier announces Heathrow-Lahore, Heathrow-Islamabad and Manchester-Islamabad services, scheduled to start in December

Bali shuts its doors to foreign visitors

Covid-19 risk makes Bali ban international visitors until 2021

Diamond Princess to be redeployed to South America

The ship will sail its maiden season in the region from December 2021 to March 2022

CAA lifts ban on PIA flights to the UK

Pakistan’s flag carrier resumes Manchester-Islamabad and Birmingham-Islamabad

John Warr: 'We have a responsibility to give the market confidence'

Wendy Wu Tours global sales chief reflects on the operator’s efforts to emerge from the coronavirus crisis

Wendy Wu Tours debuts new 2021/22 Japan collection

Operator says launch comes in response to ’exceptional demand’ for Japan

At least 18 killed in Air India Express crash

Aircraft skidded off runway at Kozhikode airport in Kerala in poor weather on Friday evening

Nomadic Expeditions on funding golden eagle conservation in Mongolia

After founding a festival to preserve the ancient Mongolian tradition of hunting with eagles, Nomadic Expeditions has partnered with a conservation centre to both protect the birds of prey and promote tourism to the destination. Madeleine Barber speaks to the tour operator’s president to find out more.

Luxury travel spend largely unaffected by crisis

The UK’s affluent consumers may even spend more on travel – once they feel safe to do so

Nature and wellbeing focus for new Japanese tourism campaign

National tourism organisation encourages Brits to use lockdown to plan trips to Japan

PATA adds more agents' training events

Demand for Asia Pacific training prompts more tutorials

Thai DMCs partner on health and safety standards

Suppliers have set consistent practices for the country’s tourism businesses to follow

Wendy Wu sees increase in trade enquiries as business picks up

Operator’s global sales director says agents need to be “proactive” to boost recovery

Face To Face with Wendy Wu Tours' John Warr

Wendy Wu Tours’ John Warr talks about the challenges posed by coronavirus and how the Asia specialist operator will do "whatever it takes" to support agents now and in the future.

Malaysia Airlines launches onboard hygiene kit

Carrier has also launched “Fly Confidently” campaign to reassure passengers

Wendy Wu Tours' John Warr to join TTG Face To Face

Wendy Wu Tours’ global sales director John Warr will join TTG live on Wednesday (15 July) for the latest in our Face To Face series of interviews

Pegasus to restart London-Tel Aviv flights

Three-times-weekly Stansted service to resume next week

Wendy Wu may bring further BDMs back after first agency visits

Agents in West Sussex were visited by BDM Joe Lavers last week

Air bridge countries maintaining restrictions to UK visitors

Several of the 59 air bridge destinations have Covid-19 restrictions in place for UK arrivals

US excluded from EU third country destination 'safe list'

Central and Latin America (excluding Uruguay), the Middle East, the Caribbean and much of Africa and Asia among other notable absences

Pakistan's flag carrier banned from UK

Pakistan International Airlines banned from UK until 2021

Small islands need urgent help to recover, says UNWTO

Small developing island economies hardest hit by pandemic, says world tourism body.

Virgin Atlantic outlines return to a further 17 destinations

Airline will resume flights to locations including Tel Aviv, Miami, San Francisco and Barbados from August