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Updated restrictions to travel to Portugal from the 1st December 2021

Updated restrictions for travel to Portugal what do I need to know?

A travel update from Visit Portugal

In order to protect our population and those who visit us on holiday, Portugal has put in place extra measures to reduce the risk from Covid-19 infection, starting on the 1st December 2021, until the 9th January 2022. Portugal has one of the highest vaccination rates in the world and the adoption of these measures have the purpose of avoiding future and...

TRAVEL NEWS: EXPLORAR HOTELS & RESORTS ANNOUNCES A STRATEGIC MASTER FRANCHISE PARTNERSHIP WITH STAND OUT HOTELS FOR CENTRAL AMERICA, MEXICO AND THE CARIBBEAN

Vibrant new holiday resort and hotel brand, Explorar Hotels & Resorts , has signed an exclusive master franchise agreement with hotel management company, Stand Out Hotel Group . The agreement will see the targeted growth and development of the Stand Out Hotel Group within Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean over the next five years.

Stand Out Hotels is a full-service third-...

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Travel News: Berlin comes to London: Introducing Hotel AMANO Covent Garden, opening spring 2022

Travel News: German boutique lifestyle hotel brand, The AMANO Group, opens first international hotel in the capital

Introducing Hotel AMANO Covent Garden , a new boutique lifestyle hotel opening in spring 2022 that promises to bring the cool and vibrant energy of Berlin to the heart of London.

Located on Covent Garden’s Drury Lane, this new kid on the block is the first international...

OFFICIAL OPENING OF SIYAM WORLD MARKS MILESTONE MOMENT FOR MALDIVES TRAVEL AND TOURISM

A bold new world of possibilities has arrived in the Maldives’ Noonu Atoll, with the official opening of the hotly anticipated holiday island resort gamechanger Siyam World . A quirky, carefree playground promising an eye-popping array of accommodation options and “never-seen-before” travel experiences across land, sea and sky, Siyam World’s arrival is set to transform the monotonous...

Cannabis Meets Wellness: Europe’s first CBD Spa opens in Zermatt, Switzerland

Cannabis Meets Wellness: Europe’s first CBD Spa opens in Zermatt, Switzerland

Switzerland’s Schloss Hotel Zermatt has teamed up with SwissCBD to open a pioneering new CBD Spa concept, encapsulating its innovative vision for the wellness market of the future. A traditional alpine boutique that has reinvented itself as an active hotel, the new CBD Spa also fits perfectly with...

half term holiday plans disrupted due to petrol crisis travel

More than 1 in 4 brits are not visiting family and cancelling half term holiday's due to the petrol crisis

The experts at Uswitch surveyed 2000 Brits to find out their current attitudes towards car travel and trips, and it seems many of us are already postponing plans to see family and cancelling holidays ahead of the half term to save fuel in our tanks.

  • More than 1 in 4 brits are not visiting family due to the petrol crisis
  • Over 1 in 4 are now cancelling half-term
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TUI launch workations travel news

TUI UK Launches Workations and searches for tester

As Britain’s office staff begin gradually going back into the office after a year working from home and travel being restricted, the UK’s largest travel company TUI, launches workations – offering a much needed change of scenery combined with a holiday for many Brits who’ve found themselves confined to the same four walls.

TUI’s workation packages are available at more than 30 4 and...

Mauritius reopening holiday destination SALT of Palma travel

Mauritius to reopen from 1 October & adults-only SALT of Palmar has new travel experiences available

Mauritius to reopen for holidays from 1 October & adults-only SALT of Palmar has introduced new experiences for guests to connect more meaningfully with the destination

At SALT of Palmar , holiday guests can enjoy the perfect mix of conscious travel and laid-back, adults-only luxury holidays. A trip away with long evenings and lazy mornings with a significant other, a holiday...

Ice crushing naming ceremony Hurtigruten Expeditions travel

Travel news: Hurtigruten Expeditions’ battery-hybrid powered MS Fridtjof Nansen has made history with naming ceremony for a passenger ship

Travel news: Named with ice ‘next to the North Pole’: Battery-hybrid powered cruise ship named in world’s northernmost ceremony

Hurtigruten Expeditions ’ battery-hybrid powered MS Fridtjof Nansen has made history with the northernmost naming ceremony for a passenger ship – at the location where expedition cruising began in 1896.

In spectacular surroundings at latitude 78˚ North in...

Travel update: removal of Maldives, Sri Lanka and Egypt from FCO essential travel list

ABTA welcomes the removal of Foreign Office advice against travel for Egypt, Maldives and Sri Lanka

ABTA – The Travel Association has welcomed the news that the Foreign office has lifted its advice against all but essential travel to the popular winter sun holiday destinations of Egypt, Maldives and Sri Lanka, based on the current assessment of COVID-19 risks with immediate effect.

As these destinations were removed from the Government’s red list on 22 September, those looking to...