Wild Rover Day Tours Plant Over 1,000 Trees with 8 Billion Trees

Wild Rover Tours, the family-owned Irish tour company, are on a mission to create eco-friendly day trips from Dublin. The award-winning day-tour company partnered with 8 Billion Trees, a social enterprise that carry out large-scale tree planting and conservation operations, and have planted over 1,000 trees and saved over 5,500 trees that would have be…

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Barbados Welcomes Fully Vaccinated Cruising

As tourism continues to reopen worldwide, Barbados’ cruise sector has made a progressive step towards a strong return by welcoming fully vaccinated travellers back to the island. On Monday, June 7, 2021, the Celebrity Millennium became the first ship to arrive under the new protocols for cruises dedicated to fully vaccinated Minister of Tourism and…

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Europe’s Travel & Tourism Sector Welcomes Adoption of “EU Digital Covid Certificate” Regulation and Urges Swift Implementation

Brussels, 26th May 2021 The European Tourism Manifesto alliance of more than 60 travel and tourism organisations warmly welcomes the adoption of the “EU Digital COVID Certificate” Regulation. The Alliance calls on Member States to ensure swift implementation before July to support the restart of the sector in time for the vital summer season, and…

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Traveller Forced into Mandatory Hotel Quarantine and Threatened with a Court Appearance After Misleading PCR Test Result

The PCR test is internationally regarded as the ‘gold standard’ for identifying various viral infections, including the detection of COVID-19. PCR testing produces a binary result of either ‘positive’ or ‘negative’ and in this type of testing, a positive detected result is reported when any level of the genetic material is identified during the PCR…

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UNWTO’s First Regional Office Opens in Riyadh

UNWTO, in collaboration with the Saudi Ministry of Tourism, launches first-ever regional office in Riyadh New office will serve as a coordinating hub across 13 countries in the Middle East Initiative marks new direction for the coordination of global tourism with regional collaboration spearheading the approach Best Tourism Villages of the World certification announced as…

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