COVID-19

Is there a limit on how much people are willing to spend on now-exorbitant post-pandemic travel? Our Editor mulls over it and comes to a surprising conclusion.

Thailand is preparing for more visitors after China reopened its borders on Sunday, 8 January 2023 by requiring foreign travellers to show proof they are completely vaccinated against COVID-19 before entering the country.

There’s been a greater need to monitor incoming travellers at airports who might be COVID-19-positive since China reopened its borders. Malaysia is just one of many countries that have instituted temperature checks for visitors in the wake of news of a sub-variant.

Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin announced that wearing face masks when flying is no longer mandatory.

They say bad news comes in threes and we believe so do good news - The UK announces tax-free shopping, Hong Kong axes mandatory hotel quarantine, and Japan reopens for tourists!

Japan's government is ironing out the details to remove the current daily limit on visitors from outside by October this year and also planning to do without remaining restrictions on international tourists.

The Japanese government has taken a major step towards resuming normal tourism operations after Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced that the country will begin accepting tourists without guides and would increase the daily arrival threshold to 50,000 beginning September 7.

Looking for some travel inspo? These are some recent destinations across Southeast Asia and Asia Pacific that currently have no little-to-no COVID-19—related entry requirements.

Many nations have relaxed their international borders, giving Malaysians greater options for where to go on holiday. Here are seven countries that have dropped all or part of their travel restrictions thus far.

Binge-worthy documentaries that’ll serve as a reminder that the world is indeed a huge and wonderful place, and that it’ll be waiting for you to explore once the COVID-19 pandemic eventually (and hopefully soon) dies down.

Malaysians can look forward to the easing of COVID-19 SOPs which include the relaxed SOPs for foreign travellers entering the country and scrapping the need for the public to use the MySejahtera check-ins function from 1 May.

Here’s some good news for you wandersters — Hong Kong has lifted its ban on foreign visitors for the first time since the pandemic began, while Thailand has done away with PCR testing for tourists.

The Malaysian Association of Hotels (MAH) is collaborating with DOC2US to provide travellers staying at MAH member hotels the convenience of self-testing from their hotel rooms through the latter’s virtual RTK Intelligent System (RTKis).

With the festive season approaching, make sure you’re prepared to celebrate safely by packing a COVID-19 care kit in your bag.

If you are continuing to keep fit while indoors, try out one of these no equipment, 20-minute or less Youtube workouts from around the world.

Malaysia’s Ministry of Health (KKM) has introduced a new website that will be updated regularly with COVID-19 travel health protocols for different statuses.

Malaysia will transition towards an endemic phase with COVID-19 on 1 April 2022, according to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob.

Malaysia’s air vaccinated travel lane (VTL) programme with Cambodia and Thailand will begin on March 15.

Get back on that Bali high! With a three-day quarantine from today and quarantine-free entry from 14 March, now’s a great time to plan a holiday!

Australia reopened its borders to international visitors on February 21, nearly two years after shutting them due to COVID-19.

The authorities of Thailand have announced that they will be reopening their borders to Malaysians soon.

Malaysia’s coronavirus recovery council announced on Tuesday that it has suggested a full reopening of borders as early as 1 March without enforced quarantine for travellers.

Malaysia has resumed sales of Vaccinated Travel Lane (VTL) air and land tickets to Singapore.

Even more stringent border controls have been instituted throughout Asia in the last week due to the rapid spread of COVID-19’s Omicron variant.