KARACHI: PIA Domestic Flight Operation resumed partially on 16 May 2020. The first domestic flight PK 8304 took off from Jinnah International Airport for Lahore on Saturday afternoon at 1:30 pm while the return flight PK 8305 took off from Allama Iqbal International Airport at 4:30 pm for Karachi. All PIA aircrafts are being thoroughly disinfected before departure of flights. PIA is strictly following government regulations of social distancing. Wearing masks and keeping space has been made mandatory for passengers during travel and their temperatures were checked before and after the flight. PIA will operate one daily flight for the…
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NEW DELHI: The Indian hospitality market is currently in the “eye of the storm” when it comes to the Covid-19 outbreak according to Neeraj Govil, Senior Vice President for south-Asia at Marriott International. While offering his support to the local government and its efforts to limit the spread of the coronavirus, he said the peak of cases was not expected until mid-July. Any recovery of the hotel market would not be possible before then, Govil said. “From July and moving forward, we expect occupancy to grow from the single digits we see today to around 20-30 per cent aggregated across…
COPENHAGEN: As coronavirus restrictions ease around the globe, one of the best restaurants in the world, Noma in Copenhagen, Denmark, announced Friday that it would be reopening next week with a new concept: An outdoor wine bar with two burgers — one meat, one vegetarian — on the menu. In a statement that appears on their website, the Noma team says, “On Thursday, May 21st, at 1pm, we will open an outdoor wine bar in our beautiful gardens at noma, overlooking the lake we share with our neighbors in Christiania. Come as you are, there are no reservations, we are…
MADRID: Employers from across global tourism are taking the lead in supporting their workers and helping the communities in which they operate, research carried out into the sector’s response to COVID-19 has found. As the sector faces up to an unprecedented challenge, the World Committee on Tourism Ethics (a subsidiary of the World Tourism Organization) has analysed the steps being taken by businesses and trade associations to mitigate the impact of the pandemic. Studying the actions taken by Private Sector Commitment to the Global Code of Ethics for Tourism (GCET) in 25 countries, the research revealed that, in spite of…
Tourism officials in Saudi Arabia have showcased the AlUla development during the Bench Events-organised Hospitality Tomorrow tradeshow. Described by authorities as an undiscovered wonder of the world, AlUla is a living museum of preserved tombs, sandstone outcrops, historic dwellings and monuments. Both natural and human-made, the location holds 200,000 years of largely unexplored history.Irina Bokova, advisory board member for the royal commission for AlUla, said: “AlUla is a cultural melting-pot, but there is a jewel, Hegra, a UNESCO-recognise World Heritage site. “The first of its kind in Saudi Arabia, it was declared in 2009.” She added: “This location is this…
BRUSSELS: The world’s biggest tourist playground has been cordoned off since it became a coronavirus epicenter, but as summer looms Europe is desperate to lift restrictions to get visitors pumping much needed cash into stricken economies. Across the continent, various nations currently sitting behind the firewall of quarantines or sealed frontiers, are figuring out how they can once again welcome holidaymakers. On Wednesday the European Union unveiled an action plan to get its internal borders reopening, safely fire up its hospitality sector and to revive rail, road, air and sea connections that have been strangled during the pandemic. Europe accounts…
ROME: In a bid to revive the country’s hard-hit tourism industry before the summer holidays, Italy announced Saturday it will allow travel in and out of the country starting June 3. Italy will reopen to European tourists and scrap a 14-day mandatory quarantine period, the government said, as it quickened the exit from the coronavirus lockdown. Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte also said on Saturday that gyms and cinemas would soon be able to welcome the public again, as the government seeks to restart economic activity while treading cautiously amid the lingering, though waning, coronavirus. “We’re facing a calculated risk in…
MOSCOW: Russia is hoping to resume international air service in July this year, while domestic transportation can begin gradual recovery in mid-June, a senior government official was quoted as saying in a media report. “It is very important for us to understand that the countries where our people could fly are safe,” Minister of Transport Yevgeny Dietrich was quoted by Russian news agency Tass. “You know that many European countries are slowly opening their own borders, their own flights. We will look and focus on the current situation. Of course, recommendations of our doctors and specialists regarding the possible safe…
CHITRAL: Two roads of Chitral in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have been federalized with the provincial government allowing 100 per cent mutation of right of way in the name of National Highway Authority (NHA).The roads will play pivotal role to increase the tourism and travel activities in the area. According to a notification issued by the Ministry of Communications the other day, the 363km long Chitral Shandur-Gilgit Road was federalised as N-140 and Chitral Garam Chashma-Dorah Pass Road (82.51(m) as N-145. Meanwhile, special assistant to the KP Chief Minister, Wazir Zada, told mediapersons here on Thursday, May 14, the road would prove…
LAHORE: Pakistan has extended the ban on international flight operations till May 31,amid the COVID-19 outbreak, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) announced Friday. “As per the decision of the Government of Pakistan, the suspension of international flight operations as effected earlier has been extended till (Sunday) May 31, 2020 at 23.59 hours PST. Remaining provisions as applicable to the suspension of Int flights reflected in previous orders remain unchanged,” read a tweet from the CAA. The CAA had announced earlier that it had suspended domestic flight operations till May 10. On April 26, the CAA had issued a Notice to…