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Labour pain for travel sector: Agencies poaching staff to beat shortage

Smaller outfits losing customers, many firms outsourcing to larger players to stay afloat

Clipped wings: Post-Covid pandemic recovery in air travel stalls

The biggest decline has been in foreign tourist arrivals

Going abroad? Declare pre-existing disease even when buying travel policy

Take country, trip duration, and your age into account when deciding on the sum insured

Hotels, tour operators shed Covid baggage as Diwali promises to sparkle

Group tours at 65-70% of pre-pandemic levels; Southeast Asia, Egypt, and Turkey seeing maximum demand

Alliance Air to hold Board meeting on Sept 16 to restore pilots' salaries

During the peak of the Covid pandemic, Indian carriers had cut the salaries of their employees to reduce losses. This year, while most of them have restored the salaries, a few are yet to do so

Govt employees can now avail air travel on LTC, Centre issues notice

The central government has issued new guidelines for the Leave Travel Concession (LTC) availed by employees, which will now include air tickets

Centre asks states to step up surveillance to curb Covid-19 spread

States have been asked to screen 2 per cent of international travellers randomly with RT-PCR tests and send all positive samples for genomic sequencing

Norms for Covid vaccination precaution dose relaxed for overseas travellers

The Union Health Ministry's decision to relax the norms about the precaution dose for overseas travellers was based on recommendations by the National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation

Myanmar reopens to tourists after 2 years; to issue e-visas from May 15

The move came after the country's resumption of international commercial flight operations on April 17 and the reopening of its borders to international travellers

Squeezing out a great holiday deal as international travel opens up

With foreign travel set to pick up, here's how you can get the best deals for your trip, along with advice on the destinations you could to head to

No more 7-day home quarantine for foreign travellers as govt eases rules

Countries 'at-risk' tag goes, along with it the mandatory sample testing

'Isolation' not mandatory for foreign arrivals testing Covid positive

Travellers arriving in India who will test positive for Covid-19 shall be treated/isolated as per the laid down standard protocol and will not mandatorily be managed at an isolation facility

Centre warns of new Covid-19 variant, issues fresh advisory to states

The contacts of these international travellers must also be closely tracked and tested as per MoHFW guidelines

Noida International Airport: Uttar Pradesh's crown jewel set to take off

Zurich Airport is investing Rs 5,700 cr in Phase I. It has tied up Rs 3,725 crore in debt from State Bank of India

India resumes quarantine-free entry of foreign travellers from 99 countries

The quarantine-free entry was resumed for travellers from countries which have agreed to a mutual recognition of Covid vaccination certificates with India

US opens doors to international visitors as pandemic travel ban ends

Those crossing a land border from Mexico or Canada will require proof of vaccination but no test

Government issues revised guidelines for international passengers

The new guidelines kick in on October 25

Air traveller numbers treble from May low as states get into unlock mode

But the grim reality is that the average daily passengers for June from the second week is still around 40 per cent of the levels reached in March when it rose to 313,000 passengers a day

Top Headlines: WPI makeover on cards, number of air travellers doubles

Our top headlines on Monday track the latest developments

Covid: New Zealand suspends entry for travellers from India starting Apr 11

The suspension will start from 1600 local time on April 11 and will be in place until April 28, Ardern said in a news conference. During this time the government will look at risk management measures