Category: Asian Travel

(The Center Square) – Gov. J.B. Pritzker defended his decision Wednesday to arrange for two charter flights to transport millions of masks and gloves from China to Illinois to bolster the state’s limited supply of personal protective equipment as it responds to the COVID-19 pandemic. The flights, which cost about […]

This past summer, as the Syrian economy began to unravel and the military pressed hard against an armed rebellion, a Syrian government plane ferried what flight records describe as more than 200 tons of “bank notes” from Moscow. The records of overflight requests were obtained by ProPublica. The flights occurred during a […]

Travel restrictions imposed as the new coronavirus took China by storm slowed the spread of COVID-19 by only a few days within China and a few weeks internationally, according to a new study. On January 23, Chinese officials shut down travel in and out of Wuhan, the city where the […]

SINDHUPALCHOK, NEPAL – Phurpa Tamang, 36, has been struggling for almost an hour to find a mobile signal in the remote village of Sindhupalchok. He’s trying to make a video call to his wife, Kalpana, in Dubai. “The kids want to talk with their mother, but the network seldom works here. […]

Anti-government demonstrations in Thailand’s capital, Bangkok, have culminated in the government declaring a state of emergency for 60 days over the city. The Thai government hopes that the restriction and curfews imposed on street demonstrations will restore calm. However, the 2010 Red Shirt riots in Bangkok demonstrated this can’t be guaranteed. The […]

“Travel safe, travel far, travel wide, and travel often,” says Nomadic Matt, the American who quit his job to travel the world, write about it and coach others to do the same. But there’s a downside to all this travel, with its unprecedented volume of passengers moving from one side of the […]

Before the COVID-19 pandemic started in late 2019, the free movement of billions of people – including tourists, business people, digital nomads, refugees and students – across nations was a common part of life. In 2018, the number of international tourist arrivals rose 6% over the previous year and reached […]

Australia has joined New Zealand, the United States, Indonesia, India, Israel and other countries in deciding to refuse entry to all foreigners flying from or who have recently been in mainland China. These bans dramatically escalate the potential economic impact of the novel coronavirus. Over the past two decades China has […]

A series examining Australia’s role in the rapidly transforming Asian region. Delivered in partnership with the Australian government. Here, Professor Brian King crunches the numbers on Australia’s tourism exchange with China. The rise of Chinese consumerism marks a new phase in the development of international tourism. Australia is the first […]

Qantas’ decision to strengthen its ties with Dubai-based airline Emirates and scale back its relationship with British Airways has been placed under a new shadow, following the release of new travel data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Over the last ten years, people from China and India more than […]