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KUALA LUMPUR: Various factors need to be carefully studied before Malaysia's tourism sector and international borders can be allowed to fully reopen without the implementation of travel bubbles.
BANGKOK (Bloomberg): Thailand plans to hold travel bubble talks with China and Malaysia this month, days after resuming a quarantine-free visa programme to boost tourist arrivals seen as key to sustaining a nascent economic recovery.
JAKARTA (Bloomberg): Indonesia and Singapore are starting a quarantine-free travel between the two countries to spur the economy as Covid-19’s Omicron cases become more dominant.
JOHOR BARU: Johor plans to establish travel bubbles at three destinations statewide and has put forward a proposal to the Federal Government.
JAKARTA (The Straits Times): Twenty eight Singapore travellers arrived on Wednesday (Feb 23) in Batam, Riau Islands, under a travel bubble that allows those fully vaccinated to enter the city and neighbouring Bintan island without quarantine.
JAKARTA (Bernama): Governor of Indonesia’s Riau Islands Ansar Ahmad said the "travel bubble” scheme with Singapore, initially slated for October 2021, has been cancelled following a surge in Covid-19 cases in the nearby city-state.
Australia's travel bubble with Singapore has been delayed until the end of 2021.
HONG Kong will assess Singapore’s new Covid-19 strategy as the two sides try to revive a quarantine-free travel corridor that was initially planned to open last November but has never got off the ground.
HONG KONG: Hong Kong will assess Singapore’s new Covid-19 strategy as the two sides try to revive a quarantine-free travel corridor that was initially planned to open last November but has never got off the ground.
HONG KONG (Bloomberg): Hong Kong will assess Singapore’s new Covid-19 strategy as the two sides try to revive a quarantine-free travel corridor that was initially planned to open last November but has never got off the ground.
Quarantine-free travel bubbles were hailed as tourism's "godsend" earlier this year, but cancellations and suspensions have deflated hopes they will herald a return to pre-pandemic normality.
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): The air travel bubble to allow for quarantine-free travel between Singapore and Hong Kong is likely to be delayed yet again, given the rising number of Covid-19 community cases in Singapore.
THE date for the air travel bubble between Singapore and Hong Kong has yet to be fixed, said the Ministry of Transport (MOT).
Thailand's Ministry of Tourism and Sports aims to discuss with Singapore a travel bubble between the two countries.
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): Details of an arrangement to restart all forms of travel between Singapore and Hong Kong without quarantine are being finalised, said Transport Minister Ong Ye Kung on Wednesday (April 14).
TAIPEI (Reuters): Taiwan will form its first travel bubble during the Covid-19 pandemic, with the tiny Pacific nation of Palau, the government said on Wednesday (March 17).
SINGAPORE, Feb 20 (The Straits Times/ANN): Singapore and Hong Kong are in "close discussions" on the suspended air travel bubble for general travellers, with the Covid-19 situation in Hong Kong now easing.
PHNOM PENH, Jan. 11 (The Phnom Penh Post): The Ministry of Tourism plans to launch a travel bubble allowing transit between Cambodia and 12 other regional countries in a bid to resuscitate the tourism sector amid crushing impact of the ongoing spread of Covid-19, Ministry of Tourism spokesman Top Sopheak said.
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): Travellers who were scheduled to take the inaugural flight between Singapore and Hong Kong under the air travel bubble arrangement on Sunday were disappointed after the bubble was postponed on Saturday (Nov 21).
TAIPEI (The Straits Times/ANN): A day after confirming the launch of a travel bubble with Palau, Taiwan's health minister said the next on the island's list for a travel bubble would likely be Singapore.
