More tourists will get eady for take-off to South Australia. Singapore Airlines ramps up its flights from Adelaide to 10 per week, starting October next year.

The number of regular direct flights may rise from 48 to 70 per week during the winter and spring season of 2023 and 2024. A news media reported Thursday last.

Japan welcomed more than 2 million visitors for a third straight month in August, recovering to more than 80% of pre-pandemic levels for the first time, official data showed on Wednesday.

The Kazakh government announced its intention to include 17 new countries on the list during the first Kazakhstan Tourism Development Forum that kicked off on Friday in the city of Aktau on the coast of the Caspian Sea.

In the first half of this year, the country’s entry and exit authorities recorded a total of 168 million arrivals and departures from the Chinese mainland, which is around 49 percent of the figure in the same period in 2019, according to the National Immigration Administration.

The Blue Dream Star sailed a day after China opened the way for more international travel by its citizens, lifting pandemic restrictions on group tours for more countries, including key markets such as the United States, Japan, South Korea.

In general, the DOT requires airlines to provide full refunds, even for nonrefundable tickets, if a flight is cancelled, so the passengers from United flight 40 on July 3 would be entitled to their money back.

Naha Airport, located in Okinawa’s capital city and the main gateway to the prefecture, resumed operations on Thursday after shutting down for two days. The transport ministry said 304 flights were cancelled.

Passengers are now are able to check in on the web or with apps. Travellers can bypass the check-in counter by printing their boarding passes at home or using electronic tickets on their phones.

Last summer’s tourist season was the first since in which no COVID-19 restrictions on socialising were in place in the UK since 2020.