Mumbai: India will offer tourist visas for free to five lac foreign tourists in efforts to boost the country's travel and tourism sector damaged by the coronavirus pandemic.

Once visa issuance resumes, the first five lac touri...

Bangkok : If you are travelling to Thailand, be ready to be tested three times - the first is on the day of arrival, the second on the sixth or seventh day, and the third on the 12th or 13th day.
Thailand Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha reopened travel in Phuket ...

Kolkata : Residents of West Bengal are stressing over the recent imposition of a visa processing fee by the Bangladesh Deputy High Commission in Kolkata.
They are upset with the fact that only the Bangladesh Commission in Kolkata requires this fee for visa processing ...

Kathmandu : Nepal has introduced a digital visa system to replace its 45-year-old hand-written visa regime.
On June 28, Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Bishnu Prasad Paudel inaugurated the new system under which visas are produced digitally from the integrated...

Male : The Maldives government has resumed visa-on-arrival for travellers from South Asia such as Bangladesh, Indian and others, starting July 15. Travellers will have to carry a negative RT-PCR COVID test report to enter the country, informed the Maldivian Tourism Ministry ...

Dhaka : The Home Ministry on July 8 sent a letter to Civil Aviation and Tourism Ministry and Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh, reminding them of the suspension of on-arrival visas.
Following the coronavirus pandemic, visa on-arrival to Bangladesh had been closed...

Dhaka : Bangladesh is currently pursuing its plan to introduce cruise tourism to Sri Lanka's Colombo, said the country's High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Tareq Ariful Islam in a statement.  
The aim is to strengthen people to people contact and tourism betw...

Dhaka : Travellers from Bangladesh and three other South Asian countries - Nepal, Sri Lanka and Pakista - will now have to undergo three weeks or 21 days of mandatory quarantine upon arrival in Malaysia, to prevent the spread of variants of concern (VOC).
The country&...

Dhaka : Country's Travel Writers Association organised a reunion called Travel Carnival June 2021 on June 25. At the reunion, four renowned travel writers of Bangladesh discussed about their published travel books. 
The discussion included sharing of personal...

Cox's Bazar : Hotels, motels, guest houses and restaurants in Cox's Bazar are going to reopen from June 24 in compliance with government health directives in an effort to revive the battered tourism industry of the popular tourist destination.  
Senior Se...