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Countries bring back COVID travel restrictions for visitors from China
Nations across the globe are implementing or contemplating actions to examination or limit tourists from China as the country of 1.4 billion abandons its COVID-zero plan and prepares to reopen borders in early January. The U.S. is contemplating new coronavirus safety measures for men and women traveling from China amid queries about the transparency of data China is reporting about the unfold of the virus, according to American officials, who questioned not to be recognized speaking about interior imagining. Japan moved immediately yesterday to announce actions necessitating a negative COVID-19 test on arrival shortly just after Beijing explained it no for a longer period subject matter inbound vacationers to quarantine…
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‘UK travel is on sale’: plunging pound attracts US visitors | Sterling
The plunging pound may cause British holidaymakers to choke at the prices if and when they next choose to go abroad. But one slice of the travel industry is seeing a silver lining in the storm clouds. Tour operators catering for visitors are quietly calling it their best month for bookings since October 2019 as US tourists take advantage of sterling’s tumble. Gathering at a conference in Aberdeen this week, there was renewed optimism from executives whose businesses were battered during the pandemic. Joss Croft, the chief executive of UKInbound, said the economy was a huge topic of conversation in a sector that “has had its own recession for the…